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Conclave 2024
the aesthetics of this film are competently “prestige” and “serious” which is puzzling because there is nothing particularly insightful being shared - it all culminates in a juvenile fantasy that you can have power without politics, that politics makes us worldly and corrupt. but the motifs are simple and delightful - daylight, birds, shattered glass. i enjoyed it greatly for what it was - a student org drama, gorgeous hypocrisy.
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Anora 2024
when igor hands her back the ring, she tries to fuck him, and then she collapses in tears.
anora is obviously about the american working-class. for anora, solidarity is so foreign, so scarcely remembered, that she doesn't even know what to do with compassion when it's shown to her. igor wants to tell her that her name means honor, light, and grace, and she doesn't want anything to do with it. she insists he must have wanted something from her,…
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Oppenheimer 2023
nolan seems to be addicted to making films that are “serious” in tone, while lacking any serious insight. the only good thing about this film is its articulation of guilt, but guilt in “oppenheimer” is a psychological affair and not a systemic one - it happens to individuals.
to me, it felt that nolan elides the difficult work of actually thinking about american military research or policymaking, and whether they can be genocidal structures. instead, let’s go for the saggy…
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Poor Things 2023
perhaps trying to recount the dimensions of girlhood, where we get a loose passing through of godwin’s medicinal approach to woman, inferior and hysterical -> max’s paternalizing notions of victorian “chivalry” -> duncan’s falsely liberatory promise of sexual autonomy -> all overlapping in the general male attempts at ownership. unsure why the sadist first husband demanded such a pat resolution - he’s not meaningfully distinct, just a different enforcement of the same possessiveness.
the film is boring and unfunny and…
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