The tyranny of normality was once easily identified, not yet having the instruments which allowed for strangeness to be dispensed of its behavioural qualities and reduced to mere optics and marketable gags. John Waters’ love for the weird is even more cathartic in the digital age.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
It’s easy to dismiss Mishima today. A superficial reading may deem him and his antics a product of repressed homosexuality, it may conclude that he was a fascist romantic and a narcissist. Simply put: Antiquated. To me, his quarrels with language, modernity and the relation between beauty and power, which all permeate his works, feel deeply personal and culturally pertinent. Aspects of myself that I continuously have to negotiate between the release and containment of, I can find resonance for…
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Blade Runner 2049 2017
Obligatory «it looks nice» remark, but nowadays many films look too nice, meaning there exists nothing in the frame which is imperfect, causes dissonance or disrupts the aesthetic harmony, because even when such elements are present they are there -and we perceive this, I think- as a result of calculation, of a too clear intention. Filmmakers should dare include something in the image which they do not fully know the meaning or significance of.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Nolan is serious in such a hipster-masculine way and there’s not a moment to breathe with this relentless and ever-present soundtrack making sure to remind us how dramatic it all is and it’s always a guy who somehow stands outside the system while also being the only one who can save it except he can’t really and it makes him corrupted and lonely and narratives flash before me like in a comic book and I still can’t breathe and I’m…
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