"She told me she thought her brother was the lucky one. Everybody would remember him and love him forever."
Working within the rules of The Philosophy of Time Travel, and continuing Roberta Sparrow's intent unto the second generation, a paean for the minor character, those who continue after the story has finished and its players leave the stage, S. Darko is the story no one wanted or needed, least of all those left behind.
Those lost souls, the abandoned young—small…
"He wants to be somewhere where he's not. But then... don't most people want to be somewhere where they're not?"
Clear candidate for 'Best True-Life Documentary That Totally Looks Like a Mockumentary', this showcases Wisconsin wannabe filmmaker Mark Borchardt and his Quixotic escapades in making low budget movies, and attempting—mostly failing—to make slightly higher budget low budget movies. A horrible sinking moment some way in when you realise this likeable, manipulative, hopeless, enthusiastic, yet charismatic character is way older than…
"No. I'm done."
There's little to no joy in watching a movie like this, of course. It's prejudged, ripped apart, fought over, chewed, digested, vomited and shat out, nothing but scraps left to offer. Once the dust has settled, which it does more in days than weeks currently, a brief flare-up on Netflix's home screen and then gone, like tears in piss, the only viewing need here is basic curiosity, a passive mob mentality of feeling left out. How bad…
"A children's story for Swedish children... Yeah, a children's story for Swedish children."
A Swedish woman in Japan takes on translation work. An astonishing looking film for what can't have been a huge budget, mixing some sumptuous shots with overexposed lo-fi sequences and creepy animation, sparse dialogue acted to an intent, an off-kilter rabbit hole of narrative which drags the audience down into bleak territory, the dark side of the Lost in Translation looking glass.
Despite some fascinating religious and historical background, this is muddled and dissolute storytelling capped with an over-explained ending and painful 'happy ever after' coda.
