She is, in some aspects, much more mature than him; she is older, she teaches him how to have sex properly, she actually works and doesn't live off of rich parents, but they still live in completely different worlds.
Anora is great at showing this disparity between classes. She finds comfort and an escape from the life of wage labor in him, but his attraction to her is merely material. He could only care about this bohemian life that she…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I went on to watch this film completely blind - only knowing the drill sergeant scenes - and right at the start I was LOVING IT.
The first half is what people know this film for - and for good reason. We get to see firsthand the brainwashing technique of the military. We get to see the inhumane treatment that is necessary in order to create bloodlust monsters: Your drill sergeant will spit on you, beat you, and call you…
Devastating. This might be more of a self-reflection than a review btw
People are as fascinating as they are strange to me; I don’t understand why most people laugh, nor how to make them laugh. Never understood anger, although I feel plenty of it myself. They are all filled with mysteries, but what does that make of me? I constantly observe and analyze people, but never seem to relate. Am I even a person? Does everyone even think like this?…
History being told through the eyes of the first sinner. A truly monumental achievement of not just animation or cinema, but art in general.
I really wish I could explain how this movie made me feel when I first watched it—the changing art style as the film progresses, along with the philosophical question of what it means to be conscious—but I can't. What I can say is that this is one of the most unique experiences in cinema, something that everyone should see, and that it was worth all the 20+ years that Jankovics spent making it.
