Gerwig has one genuinely sophisticated idea: that if Barbie really is an ideal, the embodiment of everything women are told they should be, then she’s a fixed object. And if an object has no desire, if it can’t learn from others, if it can’t change or progress — it can’t truly be human. But if a Barbie doll could think for herself, maybe she wouldn’t want to be an object either. Through Barbie’s realisation that nothing is perfect, Gerwig wants…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
-
Oppenheimer 2023
Oppenheimer is about more than the building of a bomb - it’s about how we construct morality itself. Do we judge a person by the entire story of their life, or by a single defining moment that eclipses all else?
From the beginning, Nolan asks us - is Oppenheimer wicked for poisoning his lecturer’s apple? Or does he redeem himself by preventing it from being eaten? Either way, this is a man who’s equally willing to cross moral and scientific lines,…
Translated from by
Recent reviews
More-
The Fall 2006
i love the central tenet that (almost) no one truly makes art from a place of nihilism. to visualise a better future, in art or life, means choosing to see the world through the eyes of a child.
it made me think of my all-time favourite tweet (cw suicide):
“YOU KILL YOURSELF AND IMMEDIATELY WAKE UP AS A CHILD ON YOUR PARENTS BED. YOU’VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING.”
there’s so much to love here…
Translated from by -
Transexual Menace 1996
i thought the representations and interviews with trans men were phenomenal, and loved seeing surgeons and mental health professionals who were so progressive and passionate about their work
that said - aside from Glen or Glenda which kinda breaks the scale, i’ve yet to see any transfeminine representation in cinema pre-2020 or so that doesn’t feel like the outside looking in. this film is about the conflicts that arise from being visibly trans in a cisnormative society, but it actively reinforces…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
-
Starship Troopers 1997
François Truffaut once said, “It is impossible to make a true anti-war film, because the act of looking at violence is inherently exciting”. Robert A. Heinlein wrote, “Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor”. Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers would have had them both rolling in their graves. Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation throws good taste — and Heinlein’s original novel — out the window. The rare film that indulges the horrors of war and the…
Translated from by
