Lynch works not with surrealism but fantasy. His fantasyland is not Narnia or Middle Earth, but America
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Carrie 1976
A moral desert in which the characters all suspect each other of having evil intentions when relatively few actually do: Carrie is not the whore her mother thinks she is; Sue Snell and Tommy Ross are not the bullies that Miss Collins think they are; and when Carrie cops the pig's blood, she enacts bloody judgment on far more souls than the at most 4 who are actually responsible. The violence is orgasmic but the moral desert lingers: no truths are revealed and most of the characters die without ever being redeemed or understood.
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
The Stranger 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The film is arguably "about" many things (a brutal crime, a police investigation, an organised crime network) but its focus is the relationship between Mark and Henry, and in the end is really just about Henry
Morally complex, which I respect. A portrait of a vulnerable person heading towards disaster. The film elicits pity for Henry despite his abhorrence and perversion. If the film has villains, they are actually the police and investigators, who set up an elaborate and merciless…
Translated from by -
The Substance 2024
If Cronenberg was gay, he would have made The Substance (because he is straight, instead we have The Fly)
Translated from by
