really impressed and deeply moved! loved the use of shallow depth to capture this sense of hazy memories and childhood/adolescent like wonder despite the heavy subject matter. i think that although the first person pov can be a turn off (b/c of the lack of shot-reverse shot to see exactly how elwood and turner are reacting at any given moment), for me i felt very personally attached to them and it never felt like a cheap gimmick at all
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Really glad to have revisited this movie after thinking about it for a while; i think this is such a great example of how limitations can lead to making great art
So incredibly funny, but also deeply devastating and uncomfortable to sit through; it does make me grateful that my family is at least less dysfunctional and fucked than this family is; Everyone acts their asses off and you completely buy into this family
The dogme movement (reading the manifesto…
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Kaufman really does it again with another surreal and existentialist movie that is more akin to Synecdoche than Anomalisa. It's a really interesting and creative way of adapting the novel, that I think really improves on the source material.
The janitor in the book had a lot of humanity and sadness to him that I think the book didn't touch on as much, and although I loved the book, I wish there was that element to it, instead of just…
Fucking annoying terrible Micheal Bay ADHD 13 yr old edgelord shit
The only ok part was the fact the first half went by faster than I thought, but then the second half is just so excruciating; I wish this movie had ended right at his apartment and I wish he fucking died so I didn't have to watch this shit
Daniel Radcliffe has such an awful American accent; just speak in your regular one
His acting career is like the…
