IShowSpeed presents: Funny Games
Watched the Impure cut.
I can't stop thinking about this one. What are the consequences of not just glorifying interactive violence but infantalizing violence? Hitting the griddy as Hatsune Miku after gunning down dozens in Fortnite or decimating the global south as Nicki Minaj in Call of Duty - popular gaming trends have sanded down all of the edges of the brutality of violence, replacing it with pure dopamine maxing loops. Baby Invasion uses this distancing…
Thought this was a David Lynch shitpost until the singing monkey got me weirdly emotional.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Since I'm going to see Spring Breakers next week, I decided to watch the one Harmony Korine associated film that I had yet to see. This film was written by Korine and directed by Larry Clark, in their second collaboration (the first being Kids). From the interviews I have heard, Korine disowns this film, claiming to have not even seen the final cut. He also explained that Larry Clark had the idea for this film and did not allow Korine…
The Exterminating Angel was a Kafka-esque movie about a group of bourgeoisies who meet up for a dinner party and find themselve psychologically trapped in one of the large house’s room. Quickly as they realize their entrapment, the refined patrons quickly disseminate shifting into their rude, violent, selfish, primal selves. Bunuel uses this strange concept to explore existentialist themes of the bourgeoisie, the nature of entrapment and the dichotomy of the presented self and the true self.
At the beginning…
