A quiet wonder. I went into this movie knowing only that it was about two people discussing architecture; I'd heard other things when it had come out, but that was the element that stuck with me. So as I pieced together what was going on with Cassandra's mom, and Jin's relationship with his dad, and with Eleanor, the emotional complexity, and the stakes of their decisions, sometimes hit me like a raw nerve. I knew this would be a good movie, but I didn't expect to connect with it. Wrong, boyo.
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I am here to say, as someone who saw this in a classroom in 1978 or so...this film DID ITS JOB.
I've thought about this film many times since I was a kid -- particularly the savage way Jason stabs at the bag of deer feed with the pitchfork. Somehow, when I watched it, I missed the fact of the spilled rat poison. It seemed to me that the metal of the pitchfork spoiled the food -- just the very…
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916
Coke Ennyday...a hero for our time. Mostly since he's been continuously awake since HIS time, which was 1916.
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