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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“But if humans were more like birds in flight /
if they didn’t crave treasure shining bright /
they’d live in better harmony between bliss and the arcane.”
La Chimera is a dense, complicated film with a lot going on. (Paraphrasing Bresson) Its most important idea is its most hidden, hidden in the most plain of sight. The film is the story of a man with a spiritual gift, who joins bandits that desecrate graves for profit (themselves of course only…
It's all the poorly addressed, muddled themes of Midsommar but trapped in a premise/twist that M. Night would be ashamed of