…something about the expendability of labour under consumerism which ironically felt over laboured. Funny but kind of like a less effective Sorry to Bother You and I’d rather watch Sorry to Bother You.
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Conclave 2024
IMO a perfectly structured psychological drama. Legit impose the same thematic pointers on to British Labour and u have the factionalism of the Corbyn years. Have never followed papal politics but now could be the time. + luv you ralph
NB: after long discussion I have the following thoughts. Spoilers
I didn’t hate the speech swaying the eventual choice for the Papacy, but I DID think I might have preferred if instead what we got was the unreliable narrator trope…Translated from by
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Beach Rats 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Mechanisms, mechanisms, we all use them to deal with our fallibility: conformity, medications, shaggin'.
The tangible silence of the hetero scenes in an already quiet film was so affecting. Unobtrusive and unassuming in style but also unchallenging - they felt like a mirror to the kind of insidious heteronormativity that prevails quiet and unchallenged in so many communities.
Another scene where depictions of learned heterosexuality stood out vividly was in the immediate aftermath of Frankie and Simone consummating their relationship. …
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