"Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality."
As much as many engineers would like it, their field never exists in a vacuum. The purity of mathematical or aesthetical ideas has to contend with the messiness of reality. The idealism of a product's purpose has to satiate some sort of customer need, sometimes an unethical one. Beauty inevitably becomes corrupted, the dream carries with it a curse. Jiro's Faustian bargain is in many ways universal, for all engineers and…
There’s a certain unexpected thrill in watching structural films. This seems paradoxical as they are by design entirely predictable, with the structure almost always being transparent enough for the audience to anticipate the general trajectory of what follows. Yet the thrill lies in the active engagement of the audience and either the subversion of certain subtle expectations or the unexpected revelations the structure entails. I love how, without any pretension of illusion, these films appear to be on almost equal…
This is the film I would show anyone who asks what it means to be human.
Does it matter that there is no band if we cry all the same?
On the surface, one of the most ridiculous films I've seen in which its core concept is, on paper, an unexplained mess of massive proportions. But somehow that really doesn't matter at all, the film piles on the absurd jokes and imagery at a blistering pace such that you never have the opportunity nor the mindset to really question what's going on. And, for the most part, I'd say the film's sheer maximalism worked really well.
The one main problem…
