the thc/cbd drink i had hit right when the evil white boy* introduces drugs to the plot, so was thankful the movie turned out to be less an addiction parable than an oedipal serial killer melodrama (including a neat inversion of too much love from lucy liu's mom to the main family's son and the killer claiming to be acting out in response to the opposite in his own life, canceling each other out in the denouement) w/ fentanyl, bad…
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Red Rooms 2023
set the bar 2 high for this wrt expected political scope since i watched right after finishing ghost stories for the end of the world's series on dutroux (and the brabant killerss/gladio/belgian colonialism in the congo), and the trial seemed clearly modeled on aspects of the dutroux affair.
turned out videodrome’s fascists doing a snuff film strategy of tension for NATO* = a bit closer to dutroux but RR’s take on true crime as fetishized spectator sport in a panoptic…
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Oppenheimer 2023
The discourse around this movie was already annoying when the predominantly white cast list came out last year and the main response to "where are people of color?" was "oh you want a black Oppenheimer?" Sure, DEI demands have already led to multiple black villains in superhero movies being responsible for everything wrong with capitalism and the military industrial complex (or, even, sometimes, the heroes, ie Bryan Tyree Henry in the eternals as a god of technology who has the Oppenheimer…
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The Substance 2024
the substance asks hard hitting questions like what if the model from the benny bennasi video for satisfaction experienced the picture of dorian gray, or what if jamiroquai was hiding a body in his hat in the virtual insanity room
most shocking part of the movie is that 2.5 hrs of gimmicky 90’s music vid conceits won best screenplay at cannes
prefer crimes of the future’s more incisive and inclusive look at cosmetic and substance-assisted physical adaptations to degraded environments…
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