super sweet and the acting was really good. sometimes the attempts to make this darker felt just a little unnecessary. A few scenes work really well but I think a less conventional filmmaking style would have made this a lot more intimate. Too cinematic for its own good! There were a lot of moments where I wanted to feel things but felt a little unintentionally cold. The ink on the newspaper on a dewy morning, the texture of the bird…
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My Suicide 2009
Letterboxd has weird takes on suicide films. Movies that portray “depression” as some generic and curable sadness and that reject suicidal resolutions seem to get a lot of praise on this site. As soon as a film has grounded characters, flawed ideologies, believable struggles, or realistic consequences it just gets labeled as “edgy” and all the qualities that make it poignant are overlooked. My Suicide replaces comfortable discussion points with uncomfortable intimacy, and the audience sees directly into a flawed…
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Halloween Ends 2022
Holy fucking fuck
I’m not sure what to say and what to not say about this. It’s divisive, that much has been made clear over the past few days. It’s equal parts stupid and smart. But what I can’t seem to grasp is the general hatred towards this. I guess if you’re expecting a Michael Myers bloodbath than yeah, this won’t quite meet that expectation. But the storytelling and craftsmanship at work here is impeccable in my eyes, simultaneously being…
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