It is not easy to capture an insight into humanity that is so all at once niche and yet harrowingly universal in the way the characters unfold themselves. I would not say, upon initial inspection, that I personally relate to any of the characters lined up to win the coveted truck, and yet I know desperation, I know anger, I know pain- and these feelings are woven together covertly within the film. HOAHB is rough around the edges, it is…
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Barbarian 2022
Absolutely amazing. I am admittedly biased towards anything remotely anti-Natalist, but this movie makes a beautifully violent, gut-wrenchingly articulate statement on the fundamental nature of violence and the ways in which it sits in the bones of the world. What Alex Garland failed to drive home in “Men,” “Barbarian” hits squarely upon the head-and takes it beyond.
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Sorry to Bother You 2018
I had a lot of problems with this film, but I watched it so long ago that it doesn’t seem worth the effort to work myself up again thinking about it.
What I can say is that it fails fundamentally as a critique of the capitalist machine we live in.
Sorry, but this film started off as being on the nose, and then just became the whole nose.
“Corporations are BAD”
“Rich people are BAD”
“Capitalism HURTS people”Oh, you don’t say. Really doing Marx proud.
Loved seeing the naked equisapiens though. Give me more of that and I’ll be happy.
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Marriage Story 2019
As a child of divorce I find this to be a comedy film. Hahaha
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