“nobody ever thinks of how the architect must be feeling” -my (immigrant architect) dad on 9/11
very few movies fully capture the architecte’s deep hatred of engineers and financiers. actually making a building shorter ruins the fucking proportions Jesus Christ
“There are two gates of sleep: one is called the Gate of Horn and it is an easy exit for true shades; the other is made all in gleaming white ivory, but through it the powers of the underworld send false dreams up to the heavens.”
Virgil does what Scott does not: create beauty through his art…words that survive the fall of empires and the death of the speakers of his native tongue.
This is some fake ass ivory gate shit bruh. A false fever dream, a thin echo of Gladiator.
Sad to see Marianne and Connell end like this after all they’ve been through.
it turns out that a scorcese mob movie could be even better with Cristin Milioti. fucking spectacular - it was not on my bingo card that a “DC show” would be my top watch this year
“I am, somehow, less interested in the guilt and convolutions of Oppenheimer’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died at his hand in the rice paddies and sweatshops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
I’m over our American cultural fixation on tortured (often white male) anti-heros who felt bad after their part in causing horrible death and destruction. I don’t think this movie glorifies Oppenheimer but it glorifies his remorse arc which is not…
