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Dread is home. The bleak emptiness, the futility of forward motion, the light behind a character's eyes slowly burning out, that's what I connect to in the characters I love most. Dull despair subsuming everything else.
With Midsommar, I experienced something new. After being plunged into dread, loss, and pain, I was slowly pulled out and lifted up, and by the end, I felt bliss, I felt catharsis. And the journey to that feeling was filled with alienation, the secondhand…
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I think we all dream of being rich, or at least having enough money to not worry about all the problems we deal with every day. But, even if you have the drive to pursue money, if you make the choice not to exploit others (i.e. be ethical), there is a ceiling on what you can achieve. If you're not burdened by that "issue", and you do actually manage to beat the odds and hoard wealth, it comes at the…
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You can tell that Eggers watched the original Nosferatu as a child and has been obsessed with the images of the film for decades. And not just the composition, but the feeling of the images, filtered through that grainy, low quality VHS experience, as seen by a child, reinterpreted and developed in a painstaking tribute to silent film.
I have consumed many versions of the Dracula story, from the original novel, Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu film, the 1931 Universal film, Herzog's…
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I watched the extended version.
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Saw the first test screening of this tonight. They didn't have me sign an NDA and they don't have my name, so here we go. They were using temp music and incomplete visual effects, so I won't hold that against them.
Come Away is a narrative setup for Peter Pan with elements of Alice in Wonderland. In Fantasy England (Victorian-ish), Rose (Angelina Jolie) is married to Jack (David Oyelowo), and they have three children: Peter, Alice, and David. Suffice to…
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I'm not sure how I feel about this one, really. Was it trying to look like those historical 60s French films, with all the half-digested faux-philosophical bullshit? Was it a commentary on that? Were the characters supposed to be likable? Why did all the symbolism seem half-baked?
The ending seemed rushed, the characters tended to be inconsistent, and I can never really feel for petty bullshit between friends. The "old film clip" gimmick did nothing for me.
