Pre 2018 reviews best ignore lol
Hemingway once wrote, "The world's a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.
I won't even try to write something coherent or objective, the fact that I could finally see it on a big screen, blurs my mind and fills me with tears of joy, an incredibly emotional experience that I'm glad I'd live through it
There's something about self-destruction that I find so appeal to watch and learn, not in some perverse way, but as an study of the decisions that lead us to the point of self harm us and being completely aware of that.
Whiting the first hour, "To Leslie" is a complete hell to watch, over and over again we see a human being left to die by his own choices, making the same mistakes on repeat to the point of my…
Good old Pauli really does know how to direct his characters, the evolution of their actions are so powerful that you almost feel empathetic for such an awful human being like Wade, I said almost because immediately after, his past caught on with him and everything goes south, I could almost sense a Travis Bickle ending just to confirm that Schrader likes to end his movies with a bang, but no, it leaves you with a powerful reflection of male violence that's breathtaking, fantastic stuff.
Jesus freaks and candy asses
Pocas veces he podido ver tan bien retratada la soledad, la rutina y lo gris que puede llegar a ser una ciudad, cine contemplativo y repetitivo como la vida misma. La película nos hipnotiza, nos deja esa ansiedad por algo que se salga de lo contemporáneo y lo frío de sus personajes, al final, nos volvemos todos parte de la película.
Disponible en Netflix
Entre tanta incomodidad y desagrado que la película transmite de manera tan efectiva, el full circle del arco de Yelina me sacó la misma sonrisa que los personajes y no se como sentirme al respecto, pero fue inevitable.