MIC DROP FROM BEAT TAKESHI. haven't laughed this hard watching a movie in a long time. wouldn’t exactly call it a movie but whatever. i bet amazon gave him money hoping for a *serious* yakuza thriller. bless.

“the fault…is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”—shakespeare

“once the complexes that have been. disturbing the patient are uncovered and interpreted, the illness and confusion disappear…and the devils of unreason are driven from the human soul.”

i think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by poets.

any husband of constance is a husband of mine.

i congratulate you and wish you have babies not psychoses.

we are speaking of a schizophrenic not a valentine. 
we are speaking of a man.

i’m haunted but i can’t see by what.

it’s just so dumb, but loved how absolutely bonkers this was, and laughed the whole way through. loved the tenderness and the camp and the self-serious nonsense. fun to watch something that leans in so hard for every shot. gender politics (politics in general) here are terrible, madness excellent. a paean that i suspect will be remembered as a eulogy/the death knell for auteur cinema.