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Red Rocket 2021
MAGA has revealed predators as parasites.
Mikey Saber plunders beauty (Strawberry, Lonnie’s kindness, his wife’s and mother-in-law’s hospitality) like the many smoke stacks that litter the background of Baker’s shots. He takes credit for the work of women (the AVN awards, the domestic chores, the drug dealer) as a means of elevating his credibility, securing a home, making money. He’s such a pitiable idiot and a narcissist, it doesn’t immediately register that he’s a sex trafficker.
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Guy Pearce vanishing in the structure at the end is incredible because 1) he is being swallowed up by this monument he’s pretended to understand and 2) he’s a white supremacist being erased from existence by a building that covertly tells the story of a Jewish family’s survival and 3) this is also how Janet Planet ended and that movie rocked.
(side note: the line for the men’s room during intermission at Village East took 10 minutes. there was no line for the women’s room)
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A Different Man 2024
A guy who convinces himself he’s The Elephant Man realizes he could’ve been Ferris Bueller this whole time. Inceldom and male loneliness are influenced by “society,” sure. But they’re mostly the result of the loser’s lack of imagination.
Okay, but what is art’s role in this?
When Ingrid first adapts her experience with Edward into a play, it recreates and/or expands many of the little details we found meaningful in the first half of the film (the leaky hole in…
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