honestly wasn’t watching that intently cause i was playing a dice game but thought it was a good time! i saw the chloe grace moretz one first like a decade ago so i was familiar w the beats of the story.
found some of the split screen stuff to be so silly and very aged. sissy spacek is so fucking charming it’s sad to watch her get so screwed over. she’s an angel
the set piece of the pigs blood dropping is orchestrated so marvelously
the film is very effective at provoking emotions. i definitely cried a bit watching it. ultimately there’s just a very charming ensemble of ‘characters’ that are impossible not to care for in some capacity. the charisma of the central guy is so magnetic that i thought the opening archival footage was a dramatization with an actual actor. it was kind of surreal to watch the film knowing that many of the doc’s participants were sitting in the same room w…
for whatever reason, the first time i watched this film when i was sixteen or so, i really liked it but didn’t necessarily love it. i think maybe it didn’t live up to whatever expectations i may have had at the time, so rewatching it all these years later endeared me to the film a lot more. structurally and thematically, the film really seems suited to my likings, but the fact still remains that i don’t have a personal attachment…
i especially enjoyed the pretty unsentimental presentation of all of its characters. by never really trying to endear us to them through their actions, any emotional attachment the viewer generates for them is significantly less manufactured and subsequently more organic. i especially liked the characterization of ziggy: an incredibly insufferable dude on the outside (and maybe even on the inside) but his misplaced ideals are forgivable because of his desire to be better (even if it’s for the wrong reasons)…
