Technically wonderful but almost everyone here felt like a caricature of a ‘real experience.’
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City of Hope 1991
Pacing issues but the interspersing of storylines and characters is done so seamlessly and the moral layers of the script so transparently complicated, that one quickly becomes absorbed by each individual scene. The camerawork is also quite incredible with long shots, displaying the amazing skill of its actors, particularly Joe Morton and Angela Bassett. The film became a little melodramatic toward the end, but ultimately the weaving together of realism and character narrative was genuinely impressive.
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Civil War 2024
when a mass-produced, centrist bread-and-circus commodity tries to scapegoat collective emotion during late-stage capitalism
The emotional pacing of the story felt off, punctuated by the choices of music and music editing. The experience was surely thrilling, but ultimately felt irresponsible for taking a fraught subject matter and giving it little to no critical deconstruction. Even when one takes the film on its own terms, where it embraces our collective need for a euphoric thrill-ride of dystopian civil unrest and breakdown,…
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Unicorn Wars 2022
Rich narrative on the ambivalence of religious symbology, homoeroticism of the military, and manic cannibalism of fraternity and family. Also notable is the caricaturization of the anthropomorphic sentient bears and anatomical accuracy of the unicorns, playing oppositely off each other as representative of their relationship with the world: unicorns as observant of nature and its rules; the bears as pertaining to symbolic civilization.
The pessimistic twin of Princess Mononoke. It makes sense, given the history of the Spanish Civil War and Christian nationalism.
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