Badii contemplates suicide, seeking someone to be present at his open grave. Anyone. Narrative reasons aside, don’t we all? A simple extension of: who will be at my funeral? What if I go to sleep, and do not wake up? Will you care? Admittedly went into this movie attracted to the surface level subject matter, but realised it’s actually about a search for reassurance. That someone cares. That someone knows. That for one brief moment, we are someone else’s focus,…
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Enter the Void 2009
Inaccessible as mortality itself and as jolting as a bullet to the back.
Left feeling not so much having watched it, but been subjected to it. Reminded me of my first time doing acid in Wellington. A grimy, wired and disassociated feeling, where everything was lit by pulses from a vaseline smeared streetlight; a far cry from the blissed out experience I was promised. Wellington's anaemic color palette didn't help either.
It's been over ten years since I first saw…
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Pulp Fiction 1994
Wild opening, Plummer screaming "...I'm-a electrocute every motherfucking last one of ya" [cue soundtrack]. And for the next 2.5hrs, Tarantino does a very convincing job of doing so.
Can't say much which hasn't already been said about such an iconic film. If Reservoir Dogs was Quentin's mission statement, Pulp Fiction is that idea fully flourished, and in my eyes will remain his magnum opus. There's still the trademark nods to inspiration of course. But the story's execution and its general…
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My Best Friend's Birthday 1987
Basically exactly what you've heard. If not for QT's own coked out performance, snappy dialogue and clear hints of what's to come, this thing would be an unbearable mess. It's therefore simply just a mess.
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