Watching movies is like gambling to me. I keep hitting that slot machine because I know that there are movies out there that are going to change my life. Movies that make me feel things I was never able to to feel quite as clearly. Movies that show me a whole other way of looking at movies. Any dreary day can become a pivotal one with the right movie.
Sometimes I look at the list of movies I've watched in…
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I'm so confused. How did Roman Polanski, of all people, direct this feminist masterpiece? It is stunning 😶
I'm going to pretend instead this is all Ira Levin's doing. Levin is a horror author from the '60s who wrote Rosemary's Baby, Stepford Wives and Sliver, and thus helped invent the feminist horror story.
To me, this feels like a woman's horror story through and through. I just saw a Reddit thread from a guy saying "I don't get this movie…
Instant rewatch with Simon, who fell in love with the colors and pointed out all the parallels to West Side Story. So I have to watch that next!
Movies are allowed to do this? Just do exactly what they want, even if it's a making a stage play musical with queer lighting, a lingering saxaphone and a Marlon Brando cosplay dude that makes men want to fuck him and women want to be him? Say fuck it to story and acting and just make every single second hot and intense? Damn.
That kind of redefines how I think about movies, and I love it.
Good first episode. Very gentle cinematography and pacing. I love how much space and slowness this show incorporates. It's cool, because the main character has a quiet waiting as her therapy style, and this quiet waiting just spreads out into the show.
Toni Colette does another Hereditary face transition as she goes from incredulous horny excitement to pure guilt in a matter of seconds. These shots are becoming her trademark, they should call it the "Colette". Her husband is quite…
