lastenglishman

lastenglishman

Favorite films

  • The Handmaiden
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Juno
  • Aftersun

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  • Hard Truths

    ★★★★★

  • Gladiator

    ★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

  • The Devil Wears Prada

    ★★★★

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  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★½

    a straight man’s wet dream of a movie - cars, women being looked at through binoculars (male gaze✊)

    great plot twists - thought the film was going to end and it just kept on going! 

    watch out! scary jump scares dropped my chocolate raisins at one point 

    lots of deep talk about invisible scars. an analogy for mens’ mental health? i think so 

    man has big saviour complex issues -work these out robert! 

    biggest takeaway/moral of the story is to…

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    Fennel demonstrates slapping the word ‘satire’ on a film doesn’t speak this into existence. Touching on class doesn’t mean you’re automatically criticising structural inequality.

    It’s fine to make films where the most transgressive element is a blurry shot of a skid mark or someone nosediving into cum infused bathwater but don’t catfish this as being more than it is.

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