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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009
Some people act a role, others play a part! David Lynch presents a Werner Herzog film starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe & Chloë Sevigny.
Michael Shannon plays an unhinged murderer with mommy issues & Michael Peña plays a cop, what’s new? Ostriches are assholes & flamingos are pets (eagles in drag) in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009). What’s an 11-44? An 11-44 is like somebody’s dead. Like very much dead. Maybe meeting God & staring him in the eyes isn’t…
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The Sweet Hereafter 1997
Tragedy meets travesty; a lawyer leeches over the leftover blood of the dead, mourning means nothing in Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter (1997).
Trauma as a rigid state of mind, a prescription of victimhood whether you like it or not. Egoyan provokes & perturbs with his exquisite associative editing, drawing unique parallels & clever contrasts between his characters ultimately providing both private & collective grief. Tooth-missing Billy (Bruce Greenwood) against an army of fortune-seekers is certainly my favorite character & performance.
Egoyan evokes a…
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Oppenheimer 2023
A man dancing between raindrops morally in torrential downpour.
Undoubtedly among Nolan’s most grounded work, Oppenheimer (2023) pinpoints the immensity of human avarice & the futility of our attempts to play god; a reflection on the most meaningful & grandiose moment in human history. There exists a strict chasm between those who are motivated by ‘process’ (genius) vs ‘results’ (government) & I admire Nolan’s profoundly anti-government approach. Confronted with Hitler’s suicide & the ensuing German surrender, J. Robert Oppenheimer & the American government are faced…
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