Airy crime/drama rousingly capturing an IRA member’s crisis of consciousness as he wrestles with his Irish organization’s brutality, and later deceptive visits to a fallen friend’s sexy girlfriend in England harboring her own consequential secret, juggling all these dangerously clashing situations. It’s messages are embracing identity, common humanity, and the polarity of mankind. Forest Whittaker delivers a gut-wrenching performance as that IRA’s British captive, while Jaye Davidson dramatically stuns playing his girlfriend and the protagonist’s love interest.
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Perfect Blue 1997
An intriguing surreal anime horror about a Japanese popstar’s restless schizoid career troubles, her grimly murderous stalker at large, and battling hallucinatory introspection. Perfect Blue tackles how identity, reality, and art can be distorted by showbiz, seeming to influence later films like Aronofsky’s Black Swan(2010).
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All of Us Strangers 2023
Emotionally confronting the lonely alienation of gayness, childhood repression, and needful human connection, is this sort’ve otherworldly drama/fantasy encompassing a reclusive gay screenwriter’s rocky new growing romance with his male neighbor, and him processing familial hallucinations. Andrew Scott heartbreakingly killed it playing that hermetic scriptwriter.
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The Philadelphia Story 1940
Slyly humorous screwball comedy charting the revenge ploy of a rich socialite’s ex-husband to besmirch her elite family with press agents at her new wedding, sparking a romantic fiasco of madcap proportions. Cary Grant crushes his suavely comedic ex-husband character, Katherine Hepburn owns her conflicted socialite role, and Jimmy Stewart demolishes his atypically sleazy wry press agent turn. There’s a nice little dreamy orchestral score as well.
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