I fucking love this movie and that has not diminished with subsequent viewings. On this watch I found myself really appreciating the chemistry between the leads and indeed the whole cast as part of the reason I don't mind spending time with these people over and over again as they descend into hell.
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In a Violent Nature 2024
An enjoyable thesis on the slasher genre that strips almost everything away but the facts and the actions. We follow the killer, we listen to the birds, to the forest. We overhear the idiot campers, we watch them die in insanely over the top ways. The movie seems to almost reserve judgement on the actions, they just occur. Hampered by sub-par acting from the majority of the cast but carried along by the physical performance of the lead and the film's dedication to period genre touches (the aspect ratio, video recording, etc) with a strangely meditative ending that left me eager to re-watch it.
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Blue Velvet 1986
Somehow I'd never seen Blue Velvet. I think if I had watched it at 18 it would have changed me. I was changed by it regardless. Incredible to watch a film that has invaded the culture around you in so many specific and strange ways and still be able to find it surprising, hilarious, and profound.
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First Reformed 2017
God what a powerful and awfully affecting movie. Makes you feel helpless for being alive in this day and age, deep sympathy for it's man who cannot turn that part of himself off, and rage for the systems that perpetuate these horrors. What an unexpectedly uplifting ending after a long spiral that seems to go only down.
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