Despite its technical acrobatics and painstaking organisation/orchestration, Adolescence doesn’t do much else. The main theme here is control, whether that’s between a parent/child, school/student, psychologist/patient, government/citizen, male/female. However, I didn’t feel like it explored any of this with enough depth to warrant a rave review.
The first two episodes were a little dull and I didn’t feel the one-take form helped. The one-take stuff really feels like a gimmick throughout and I don’t understand how the form serves the show.…
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Inland Empire 2006
DNF first watch(?) because I was scared shitless. The previous 3 star rating was for myself. Put my big boy pants on and tried again. Incredible.
Edit: "to see Lynch's worlds captured on digital video makes for a bizarre short-circuiting: as if we are witnessing a direct feed from the unconscious" - Mark Fisher
I was just wishing we’d plugged Lynch into some mind extraction machine so we could’ve got a couple of hundred more films out of him. Truly one of the greatest to have ever done it.Translated from by
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On 11th February 2015, Rolling Stone published an article ranking every cast member from Saturday Night Live. As a sucker for anything listed and ranked (the latter quality is what Schindler’s List desperately needed), I decided to check it out. In 139th place (out of 145), was a Mr Norm Macdonald. The description read:
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Kanguva 2024
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Suriya, Sri Prasad and Siva just lojak, mojak, pajakked me all over my kung-fu kondai.
