i have spent my time since watching this mulling over what things in my life might be the consequence of having been hypnotized in some way.
how much of the good and bad that i experience (and generate) is the product of a concerted effort, and how much of it is just the end result of being lulled into an idea? what am i actually responsible for???
Cure is very purposeful with the flashiness of its main villain’s manipulation. at…
the knowledge i had going into this was:
- Bong Joon Ho movie
- In english
- Robert Pattinson funny voice
- Guy dies a lot
Given the first two, I was already assuming it would feel a lot like Snowpiercer—far more eccentric than something like Parasite, and with a lot of “in-your-face” class commentary. I think both of those things ended up being true.
For the majority of its runtime, most political/social references were pretty on the nose, and…
i have never in my life heard a soundtrack as beautiful as this one. learning that jonny greenwood didn’t win the oscar after watching this was enough to bring my day down a couple notches
regardless, my mourning couldn’t last long—this film had an inescapable warmth that i might just have to carry with me for the rest of my life… i read a comment of a random PTA film analysis that wrote something along the lines of:
“anderson writes…
