First time watching this in like, 6 or 7 years. Didn't fully appreciate it the first time, but now I'm convinced this is Bong Joon-Ho's take on "The People Who Leave Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
"The train is the world and the people, humanity". They literally spell the class struggle out for you, but they don't need to. It's a revolution of the lumpenproletariat.
Namgoong wants to destroy the frozen gate, ending the exploitation altogether. Curtis is afraid…
Forgot to review this when it came out like a year ago but this is my favourite Godzilla so far. I may prefer Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla for like, stylistic reasons but this is the best overall.
My friend made a good point about this movie treating the Second World War as if it was something that merely "happened" to Japan, rather than something it was an active participant in, and she's right. But what I saw was veterans of an…
Beautifully captures the feeling of becoming smaller every day that you deny yourself your identity, truth, happiness, whatever you want to call it. Living in some false consciousness, unaware the real you is buried and slowly suffocating, and the only way to save yourself is to do something painful that you've been made to think is insane. You don't have to be trans to get something from that but I'm sure it would crush if you are
The Connor O'Malley…
Movie I've seen more than any other. The Room is a close second. Then Palm Springs, then Edge of Tomorrow
