War sucks, I guess. Just as I suspected.
One of my favorite uses of the extended oner is the ending dream sequence in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a hallucinatory half-hour. Which makes sense because at a certain point 1917 didn’t make me feel immersed so much as it made me feel sleepy.
Some nice moments, though. I really liked the slow reveal of the British soldiers sitting among the trees as a man sang.
I never understand trench warfare.…
ET / Eraserhead; both use the same little penis-shaped creature to explore fatherhood from opposing perspectives.
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I love the way men are shown (not shown) in this movie. Silhouettes, the back of a head, keys on a belt loop. All men are father, and father - for Elliot - is distant, unemotional, unknowable. Which really pays off in the scene where the van is listening in on the two brothers after they find their dad’s shirt. They tell fond…
