#ffs

first full rewatch after many many years: first time i noticed how (bad) dreamlike the sets are, so one-note brown and suffocatingly enclosed -- newman and redford are (newsflash) terrific together, with lots of solid little minor parts along for the ride

the notion that the scope and the realms of the scam are just infinitely expansive is hugely entertaining if only as a figure for the rugpull that all of hollywood and the rest of the entertainment-industrial complex has always been committing itself to etc etc… with ragtime less an anachronism than a figure for the earliest backdrop-manifestation of same lol (actually not joking here)

this is an extremely emotionally intense movie and i am horny for joy, there i said it