“Do you keep in touch with the children as they grow?”
Taking place within a society designed to suppress human nature, The Assessment tackles how such a society pushes and pulls against innate human desires, specifically in the context of wanting a child. This film asks the question about how humans find meaning in a society void of desires that are rooted so deeply in human nature. What do we do when a society pulls away such important characteristics of…
“You should be happy about those feelings.”
Call Me By Your Name with teenage boys and a happy ending! In all seriousness, this was fantastic. Gorgeously shot, good score, and great performances from the whole cast, especially the lead Lou Goossens. Fuck, what a performance. Blessed with a great set of eyes, Goossens captured every single sense of longing, loneliness, love, reluctance, anxiety, sadness, happiness and more so well. Excited to see what he does next.
Young Hearts takes the…
This is a ChatGPT movie. The blandest script of the year with boring dialogue, zero nuance, and glazing over a hundred different topics including the morality of euthanasia, climate change, and how we view death. However, we get no exploration into anything, the characters are literally pieces of meat spewing out lines of nothingness with no conviction or meaning. There were multiple scenes that just laughably took me out of the film, even though I was beyond bored the whole…
“Let’s never come here again cause it would never be as fun.”
In a world, in an existence, where almost everything doesn’t make sense and tangibility is often a myth, finding something so real can be life changing. Amidst a world they literally cannot understand or grasp onto, we watch Joe and Charlotte go from lost souls to finding something tangibility in their existence through their relationship. Knowing the inevitably of their split, they decide to plunge into the realness…
