there's something cruel about this movie, and i don't mean its ending.
when i saw "we're all going to the worlds fair" i didn't know that jane schoenbrun was trans, and i didn't read it as a film about transness, and i still don't. i love that film in a strange way, and i think that's because it notices, with incisive emotional realism, that we are all pretending, that in our modern-all-too-modern world we've been given an infinite field of…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
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TÁR 2022
from a twitter thread i wrote abt this movie:
I keep thinking about Tár it's got lots of little layers and details, it's almost annoying that the most talked about movie of the last few months is also brilliant. like I realised that, Leonard Bernstein (her supposed mentor) died in 1990, if Tár is the same age as Blanchett then she was like, 20? it's actually such an obvious lie, but she sure can talk the talk...
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Burden of Dreams 1982
it's a slight on my character that I keep thinking about this film in a way that makes me feel like I need to develop an artistic dream and a vision that will set even nature in a battle against me until I cause harm to myself and others for the sake of art
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We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021
the premise for this kind of movie is inherently corny and this doesnt try to avoid it at all, and its better for that and worse for that at once. i dont know. idk if its even a good "movie"
it gets at something, though. fuck, everyone around is weird and crazy and you cant keep your eyes off them. and now I'm crazier than ive ever been but ive made it all up. theyve made it all up and…Translated from by
