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vincent gallo i hate everything about you but goddamn this movie is good
Not sure the runtime justified any of whatever ~this~ was. Big fan of story 1, not so much story 2, story 3 was good. It's been over two weeks since I've seen this and I haven't thought about it since. With maybe the exception of Poor Things and The Favourite, Lanthimos leaves my brain in a muddle, almost like I'm too dumb to understand what he's trying to do. Strands of theme, of loneliness, the absurdity of human connection- but not much else.
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Really had me there for a minute. To the credit of the filmmakers- this had me pretty scared, and I loved the use of frames within negative space- always checking the corners of the screen. But when the coup de cinema is "the devil made me do it", I always feel a bit taken advantage of or underestimated as an audience member. Maybe this is just the logical continuation of the Ari Asterification of horror- starting off in a grounded,…