You know it’s a five star movie when the drive home from the theater feels extra special. You look at the buildings and streets aglow around you, imagining what the world looks like through the eye of a little 1-inch-tall shell perched on your dashboard, pistachio battle cap and needle spears and all. It’s the little things, right?
P.S. I could watch Marcel walking on walls with his honey dipped shoes all day long.
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“I’ve never seen encapsulation like this.”
TENET is about love and sacrifice at its core, encapsulated in inversion and sleek action and an unparalleled Göransson score. Since October, I’ve read the screenplay, listened to the score on repeat, pored over the wonderfully detailed timelines on reddit, and dissected every scene with my unlucky friends in person/on tumblr so many times that it feels like I’ve seen the film more than just three times through. Every conversation I've had about TENET…
director: how much cheekbone can we fit in one frame?
camille and issei: hold my wine —
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ad astra felt like an essay on loneliness, almost existentialism, packaged like an outer space action quest. its themes might have been more suited to a poem, or a short film, than the full-fledged hollywood blockbuster its trailers and teasers seemed to show. it didn’t seem to succeed in creating exciting action sequences, nor did its drama delve deep enough. a line from the movie that encapsulates this is “you’re going to fly commercial to the moon to evade suspicion.” that’s…
