I remember so much about those days. Southern Texas heat, the smell of smoke cloaking sweat, youthful joy hiding between fear. I was 15 the last time I went to church camp, at that time I'm not sure if even my parents still believed. It was a last volley of decorum in our crumbling world, everything else in our lives was falling apart then, and our church offered to pay for this getaway every year, so it always just happened.…
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Red Dragon 2002
If you're just getting into cinema more seriously, a great exercise would be to watch Michael Mann's Manhunter immediately followed by Brett Ratner's Red Dragon. Similar scripts based on the same original text, but worlds apart because of who directed them. Now you know what good direction looks like.
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Hannibal 2001
Hannibal's big vacation. Ridley makes a huge u-turn away from Mann and Demme and turns this material into the trashy mayhem that was always lying below the surface. A movie about a pack of perverts jockeying for position, only for nothing to be gained anyway, they all just return back to the starting line.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
A film that is far more interested in using a cis person's mental image of trans life to appear as though it's doing something much more intelligent and empathetic than it actually is. You will not find a shred of honest understanding here, nor even a basic attempt at capturing any sort of reality whatsoever. It just does not see Emilia as a woman, it sees her quite specifically as a trans woman, and this distinction is stated aloud non-stop…
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The Love Witch 2016
Anna Biller goes full TERF-mode in this one. Depressingly hetero and regressive, completely misunderstands witchcraft and spiritual beliefs while still appropriating them for it's insane gender essentialism. A woman is only her womb and she must be a seductress, and a man will always be a predator or a fool to be subverted and manipulated. According to this film, that's the way the world is and if you don't like it, that's too bad. Fuck that.
Looks pretty though!
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