Smashed out the double feature with dad: Longlegs followed by a Bill Johnson sermon on the humanity of Christ.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
All of Us Strangers solders ordinary love together with the romantic, celebrating the parental bond through the agony of its breakdown.
Scott’s character corrects Mescal’s in one scene- where Mescal reflects back to Scott that losing his parents must’ve been lonely- by asserting that it was not loneliness, but terror. The film merges Scott’s sober grapplings with a bad k-trip and the hallucinatory images give voice to a feeling that, in my life, has a kind of amorphous quality, as…
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Personally, I don't care much for postmodernism. The central assertion of a godless world bereft of meaning doesn't resonate as terrifically with me as it does so plainly with Kaufman, a dissonance I presume stems from my Christian faith. Still, Synecdoche, New York is probably the greatest film I have ever seen.
Enter Charlie Kaufman. To the absolute delight of the film-goer, Kaufman- a writer and artist of considerable talent, has chosen the cinematic medium to explicate his persistent…