I'm wine drunk and morbidly fascinated. Every single scene in this movie confounds me. I love rain. Bring back whatever 2010s Instagram filter they overlaid this entire film with. Why does Robert Pattenson talk like a secret Swiss expat. Something about his voice is so silly in this to me. The people in this movie jerk around like they have 500 mg of caffeine running through their veins at all times. Edward looks like a possessed porcelain doll. I was…

I cannot overemphasize how the end of this movie made it soar into a film I would gladly rewatch. This is a story that accurately portrays what it means to have faith in any religion and I would argue even beyond a religious context. That means centering the cavernous doubt and humility characteristic to belief in something indemonstrable. It forces men who preach of love to stare into a mirror of harsh atonement for their haughtiness. There is no one…

Shelley was a deeply flawed character and that's what made this work so well. She had a graindoise sense of importance and extreme attachment to her burlesque show that caused her to develop no experience beyond the Razzle Dazzle. When she doesn't show up to support her fellow dancers, who are younger and will have an easier time getting another job, she isolates herself to suffering more intensely. Its only by grieving together that women, especially women who are looked…