a lyrical, surreal, striking film. a war movie about god. that one explosions in the sky monologue is killer. could do without the intensity of the orientialism on display, here. but god what a film.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
far too obvious to be a puzzle box, but not interested in being one. instead, it's interested in the moment when the puzzle box unravels. like trying to stretch the blue box sequence in mulholland drive across two hours, pulling on it until it snaps.
obviously, there's a clear trans reading, but i think people who insist that it is only relatable to trans people and that there are no other ways to read it are suffering from a near-terminal failure of imagination.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
The most I've enjoyed a superhero movie in ages. Sure, it's messy, and long as hell. But I'll always take messy over truncated. Messy stories are just stories with fingerprints on them. They're alive.
Snyder is fascinated by the DC superheroes as symbols, as images. The camera ogles them, objectifies them--in Snyder's reckoning they're as much people as they're giant pieces of pop art. Which is, well, what they are. And the tone here, all operatic overtures and self-serious drama,…
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Alita: Battle Angel 2019
"Does it bother you... that I'm not fully human?"
I keep thinking about the bar scene. With taut energy, Rosa Salazar plays an Alita whose mood changes from beat to beat throughout the entire sequence--she's flirtatious, then naive, then idealistic, then justifiably arrogant, then bloodthirsty and all the way back again. You get the sense, watching her incredible performance, of a person who's in the process of finding out who she is, step by step, moment by moment. She doesn't…
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