Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
couldn’t quite deliver on the same level as the first one but denzel washington brought it home 🤝
timmy went on like an inverse hero’s journey for this one 🤣🤣🤣 didnt know bob dylan was a whole supervillain
i am also slightly annoyed at how they blunted seeger & guthrie’s socialism into j a vague discourse abt folk aesthetics
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A playful interrogation of the cowboy mythos, this film is the Gabriel García Marquez of Westerns.
The only thing preventing this film from receiving five stars, however, is the completely unnecessary romantic subplot. Perhaps it is part and parcel with the Western genre. Nonetheless, it feels lackluster in comparison to some of the other nuances explored in this film: mythology vs. capitalist realism, gender as performance, among others.
Watched in dub!
Definitely need to rewatch, still a little confused by how everything in the movie ties together but....
THINGS THAT ARE MAKING ME THINK: parakeets associated w/ paradise and fantasy being fascists in the "perfect world"; building worlds w/ blocks that parallel the gravestones, how we ideate the world and grieving as interconnected(?); the estate and how it interfaces w/ empire, like they literally bring the kamikaze plane parts to the main house; rebirth vs. predeterministic living; generally…