Love how lush this looks and how straightforward it is - everything just is, if that makes sense.
Also loved the kind of painterly approach to the animation here - a lot of the wides seem photorealistic, but the closer we get to our characters the more obvious the textures become. Good stuff.
Kind of a stealth adaptation of Johnathan Livingston Seagull, too, just a little.
Recently, whenever I watch a film, I find myself slipping into a kind of awestruck mode - so much time, so much money, so many resources go into these things. Every film you’ve ever seen is the product of blood, sweat, tears, and a million lucky breaks. It’s incredible.
And it makes it hurt all the more when they suck shit.
One of the most surface-level, unsubtle films I’ve ever seen, and what really twists the knife is that so…
The line between commitment to authenticity and mindless hating is an atom wide. Even though the world is full of bullshit, you still have to play the game. What else can you do? Rot?
One of the chillest movies about criminal enterprise I’ve ever seen. Everything is so measured, so deliberate, and that pace makes the slide toward pyrrhic victory hit all the harder, makes you feel your stomach descend that same slope.
