there are so many goddamn movies.
god bless them all.
(filmmaker, & aspiring feather-weight boxer.)
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This was perhaps the most pure & beautiful work of imaginative futurism I’ve ever seen.
Fuji & Glenn on a Japan/USA United Nations space mission in the near future, just beyond 1965 is a wild, gorgeous, hopeful thing that Ishirō Honda also directed after “Godzilla” in 1954.
I went into the showing, hoping it might be a fun movie, & not overstay its welcome on a potentially shaky premise.
I was floored to discover that it is a clearly thoughtful work of film that reckons with the existence of “Barbie” - & the spectrum of so many, decades-long, generational consequences caused by rendering the concept of an adult human woman as plastic object, & plaything. Barbie wrestles with her meaningfulness as an imaginative, aspirational toy, along with the vulnerability of being…
It will take time to articulate precisely why, but I have to say I’ve never seen a movie whose cinematography works precisely in tandem with the poetry at the core of the script as a Text.