The most scrumptious depictions of food ever seen, a wonderful Jazz-y score, beautiful visuals, and an environmentally-aware social message definitely did wonders for seven-year-old me; I personally will accept no sacrilege towards this masterpiece! My five year old brother agrees -- and he would know best what movies are ideally suited for children!
(Mostly joking but not really)
This movie scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. Felt like I was seeing myself as the oddball neurodivergent kid I was, intellectually trying to grasp the strangeness of it all (a Sisyphean task). Donnie Darko is a movie I had heard so much about, had been recommended to me so many times, seemed so adjacent to the movies that I loved as a kid, that I felt like I already knew Darko in a way; I don’t know…
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a genius, and this film is genius on every level. Some pretext might be necessary (which I myself didn't know until about 20 minutes ago), when Mohsen, the director, was younger, he decided that he wanted to save humanity and make humanity better after he saw a homeless woman with a small, poor child. He decided that to do this, he would stab a police officer (presumably to indicate an attack on the Shah's reign) and go…
"That's the way it crumbles.... cookie-wise"
What do you do when your having a shit day and feeling depressed as fuck? You do what I did, you make the best decision ever and you randomly turn on "The Apartment" and all your problems and reality disappears as you get stuck into the beauty which is "The Apartment".
"The Apartment" is about CC Baxter, he works for an insurance company known as Consolidated Life on the 19th floor, Ordinary Policy Department,…
