No idea what the hype's about. Good music. Barely a story here though. Began and ended in medias res and depicted a talented arsehole just being a cunt to everyone. The only way thru the snorefest is the emotivity of the music. But any review that talks of revolution is lying - it shows none of that.
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Days of Heaven 1978
So 'incest brings insects' was the only lesson my friend Nina could find.
Platitudinal bore rot - I feel less conscious having watched it. Not one satisfying conversation. Trying to be Steinbeck but minussing the politics and just about anything challenging about that period of history. But look, old machines!!! Look, sun off wheat, and wild animals soon to be made extinct in favour of monocrop. My own ears felt like corn. It idolises moral poverty, as well as poverty.…
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What Is a Woman? 2022
Anti-intellectual and verging on propagandistic, I wish this hadn't edited out some of the most interesting parts of the interviews. I wish the interviews had been less obviously leading, spun and inflammatory. I wish it hadn't conflated the distinct issues of identity and surgery.
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