2010 was…so long ago. I mean, I literally know it was 15 years ago but our culture conversations around labor, wealth inequity, higher education, race, etc have evolved (but also *haven’t* in some ways).
This is so much about how liberalism kills movements and how being *perceived* as being progressive is what the powerful like to do so they don’t have to enact actual change.
But Wiseman resists taking sides which would usually infuriate me but he does it with…
"From my tiny room, your house looked like heaven. Day by day I came to hate you moreIt gave me a reason for living...Besides it's amusing to make fortunate men take the same misery as the unfortunate"
Thrilling!
Blocking is so precise.
Love the use of all of the reflections (the kidnapers sunglasses, the mirrors in the bar scene, the final face-off in the prison)
The American remake will be interesting...huge flaw right off the bat: there's no way American police are this competent / coordinated / diligent
Your swagger and your bearing
And the just right clothes you're wearing
Your short hair and your dungarees
And your lace up boots
And your keys, oh
Your ring of keys…
To the mysterious woman at the 7:30pm showing at BAM who kept yelling “Shoot him!” over and over again to Anya…I salute you for having absolutely no shame after the entire audience in the theater turned on you and told you to shut up 🫡
