What happens when you overstimulate people is that they begin to scramble like bugs after you lift up a rock to see who can write the most flowery yet predictable description of the film that everyone else just saw. Yes yes yes fried chicken hillbilly bloody sex pulp supernatural gothica thank you chatgpt
What's being lost in the shock value (which Friedkin may not exactly agree with) is that Friedkin's depiction of low-income West Dallas Texas isn't a cruel cinematic…
Similar to Crash in that the supposed futuristic dystopian nihilism gets put on the backburner in favor of shoehorned erotica - but I welcome it
Once again, Sion Sono is someone who understands the ennui felt by people of all facets and he finds pleasure in depicting this resentment of one's situation boil over into sadistic outbursts. While in Suicide Club and Love Exposure, this idea is depicted with a twisted jocularity through absurd blood spurts and people exploding into a red mist as if they were a can of paint, you see none of this in Cold Fish. In those films, you can at…
Peak "subtitled film screenshot" American (NB: 'American' is a noun here) slop. Trite fascination with drudges and the supposed inner light that shines through within them expressed via archetypes you've seen a million times over and done better tied together by an elementary moral message. A pessimistic film very content with ugliness and yet chooses not to explore it at all (read Céline). Every long shot clearly meant to affect profundity so that the most annoying person you know can…
