Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Bong Joon-Ho is a masterful storyteller who characteristically utilizes seemingly far-fetched notions, plots, & settings to develop themes & realities that become very real, very quickly.
The world of Mickey 17 certainly is our reality—one of the haves and have nots, of classism and struggle (*cough * cough * See: Writer/Director/Producer), but also one of resilience and resistance, of boundless human curiosity and a trust in innate goodness. The cast led by Robert Pattinson, truly the character actor of a generation,…
Captured an essence, with varying success in substance.
Sometimes the pursuit of greatness is great in and of itself.
Well folks, that’s folk.
3.5/5
So much to say, but this is it for now:
They really don’t make movies like this anymore.
Yes, it is long.
But, it’s not tedious or superfluous.
It’s a long form narrative that I think is necessary for a complex (fictional!) character driven story like this to be told without compromising realism.
It’s a work of art that doesn’t try to hide from the fact that it is. That’s rare for a lot of movies nowadays. But, then and…