This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Mandy lived in a universe of magic and instability. Its metaphysical foundations are like clay and therefore altered with every action of its subjects. Your dreams represent actuality. Everything and everyone is ephemeral, except justice, which transcends reality and is eternal and invaluable.
But the servants of the dying world do not know this. In collective hubris, they believe it is a static universe where the mighty and powerful will keep up these conditions until the end of time, they…
Spike Lee's first full feature film, She’s Gotta Have It, is a reaction to the polygamy acceptance for men, but not for women. With that, it has rather heavy feminist undertones, which he very much felt was needed for America in that day and age. Needless to say, this film would not have been made unless this issue with society wasn’t there. While I liked the mood and setting of the film, I thought overall it was fairly empty and…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I could never get the hype with this film. I've probably seen it about six times, and I still don't see it. For me this is extremely thin and dumbed down. Everything is painfully obvious. The story is clichéd and predictable. There are barely characters, it's just bodies doing something in a certain, specific manner, completely unmotivated and one-dimensional. There's no ambiguity or realism, kind of like a human fable, rather than a drama. Everyone is treated like some cheap…
Salò is a film that never lets me go, it's like a painful bulge in my brain, like a dysfunction, some urticating cynicism and subtle hatred for humanity, something unavoidable. It's grim, never saturated, never redeemed, it's a "necessary evil" that is, and will always be. A film to have seen, and never again.
