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American Psycho 2000
Portrait of a society so thoroughly brand-conscious, status-obsessed, and preoccupied with good opinions that it obliterates personhood. Within such society Patrick Bateman, already mad, is driven madder as his parallel attempts at distinction—stylish dinner reservations and tasteful business cards, hooker killings and co-worker slayings—come ultimately to nothing. Though the anonymity imposed by American yuppie-ism allows him to “get away with it,” the impossibility of being properly identified—as his lawyer's client, as a murder suspect—signals a soul-destroying inability to ever be…
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
You wouldn't believe some of the things these lesbians say to each other. Things like "Let me at that flappy dappy," and, "It's time to plunder your butthole," and, "Taste the wiggler." An interesting look into LGBTQ+ relationships!
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Plays with the preoccupations of the currently ascendant generation--liminal spaces, lost media, trauma, etc.--without exploring any to satisfaction.
Seems to rely on the audience’s a priori sympathy with its world-view, (the suburbs are terrible; parents are predictably bigoted and negligent; etc) for the emoting on-screen to have any meaning. (Though I happen to share some of its implicit opinions, I expect something other than mere assertion in my art.)
Uses the aesthetics of better stylists to accrue gravity in lieu…
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