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certainly a standpoint to hate on this or say this looks like someone is trying to hard or diss on Coppola for making this .., but that ultimately kinda misses the point. yes i did feel completely off-put when I started watching it .. then watched it again, setting off any preconceived notions of the film is gonna be, and I gotta say I had SO MUCH fun. Coppola is not showing that he knows modern cinematic language, he's using…
truly entertaining, a movie that starts off as a sad story then veers into a dizzying confusion of identities, making a mockery of your own expectations of the film. Adam Pearson and Sebastian Stan really kill it with the performances, loved every minute. this movie is like if David Lynch's Elephant man made a baby with David Lynch' Lost highway and then decided to adapt it for broadway. Or 'off broadway'.
as we were walking out of the theater, my friend turned to me and said "do you realize we are the ones who are wrong here? buying tickets no matter what they make?"
so yeah we are all responsible for creating this monster. so stop complaining and take responsibility.
for a movie thats trying to satirize beauty standards, it ironically succeeds in reinforcing the same standards - being young is sexy and being old is well, horrifying and makes you ugly. for an 'elevated' horror movie, the scares are very basic - what if your thumb became ... you know... really old? isn't that scary ??? omg what if your teeth fell out in the middle of a show, isn't that disgusting ???? fuck off. Is it really psychologically…