I feel like everything I hear about this movie in public spaces is negativity, but this was actually an awesome ride. Interesting lighting and the camera actually movement is actually fun as hell.
Some missed steps here and there - biggest of which for me is the name Gabriel just doesn’t quite fit, even if you can tell they’re going for an angel/Devil thing - but this made enough right choices to keep my attention.
Avoided this for years bc it was perpetually overhyped, but it was pretty good! I feel like most of its strength comes from concept alone, but the filmmaking is solid, and Carrey is incredible. Wasn’t expecting it to get into anti-authoritarianism, and love the positivity in the face of the absurd.
Have had a catastrophically bad week and my mom could tell it’s been getting to me, so she asked to go see a movie with me. I was already planning on going to the movies because I had quite literally nothing else to do, so I said sure. God damn, I’d be hard-pressed to find a better movie to luckily blindly see with one’s mother. We sobbed and crode, and had a great talk after. Her voice broke as she…
When I was a little kid, pink was my favorite color. I was content to love it and the sweetness it brought to everything it touched. Then, when I was about 5yo, my older sister’s husband told me “you can’t like pink, pink is a girl color”, and I suddenly gave way to the pressure, telling everyone my favorite color was now blue or teal. I think I’m cisgender, but I‘ve rarely been sure. I often think of the tweet…
