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Mickey 17 2025
this was fine.
things i liked:
- seeing robert pattinson do something funny like this
- the relevant parallels (filming everything to broadcast to followers, trump style figure, forgetting humanity bc everything is mediated through technology, thinking humans/groups are better than other species/groups)things i didn’t like:
- should’ve taken the parallels further, been more on the nose, more relevant
- could’ve been funnier (constant light smirk no laughing, if parallels more relevant maybe it would’ve been funnier? creeper animals…Translated from by -
Bird 2024
i LOVED this. made me feel fuzzy. an exercise in finding beauty in the unexpected.
aesthetically - gritty social housing setting but every shot is beautiful. graffiti scribbles in bus windows become poetic lines to frame landscape. tower blocks become monumental lookouts. ugly sequinned children’s backpack catches the light just right. almost uninhabitable squat looks more like artist’s studio. and the iphone shots!!!!!! (my favourite was the horse nuzzling the lens.) these looked like sam youkilis if he visited north…
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Kneecap 2024
what i liked most about this was how well it showed the fine line between extremes. for example:
- the scene in the psychologist’s office. The Troubles, “ceasefire generation”, “history entering biology”, societal sickness. historians’ diagnoses of a broken country become teenagers’ excuses to obtain drugs. trite scene becomes laughing audience. serious becomes silly. sad becomes funny.
- the scene in the police cell (with truncheon). gore of bloody face. horror at police capacity for violence. meanwhile character realises he’s…
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Run Lola Run 1998
Things I liked:
- The shots felt like choreography. Painstakingly matched to the music like a dance routine. I suppose to emphasise the film’s theme of time/butterfly effect.
- The colours. All bright (eg her red hair and green slacks standing out against grey city), nice to look at. Gave continuity with the technicolour cartoon sections too. Looks v palpably late 90s/early 00s, great nostalgia.
- The cartoon. Again bc of how it looked but also bc it was reminiscent…Translated from by
