"I think I've done something terrible."
I've decided to give Vox Lux the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, the second half loses all of the momentum built up by the ferocious first. The characters are suddenly underwritten and caricaturistic. The final concert is not the catharsis it should be. Wrapped Up aside, the songs are limp and unimaginative, like sub-par Sia songs.
All of these factors mean you walk away from Vox Lux feeling as if Corbet has blown his…
Is it crazy that I actually liked this? It should also be noted that I wound up enjoying the morally-questionable Collateral Beauty too, so I may have suffered a concussion or something in recent years.
A thought occured to me during McQueen which I couldn't evict from my head for a long time during and after as someone who knew nothing of McQueen: was I impressed by the film or the work? The answer is unequivocally both. His work was so eccentric, groundbreaking and very cinematic, worthy of a big-screen story rather than something small-scale.
Chapters for the story are referred to as 'tapes', which is fitting for a man - who much like Amy…
