"We can't do this 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
"Why not?"
Can't explain why I liked this movie so much. Maybe it's combo of being like a very sexy movie but also incredibly fucking weird and absurd and funny. Weird and sexy -- apparently my cup of tea. It's also funny because it oscillates from being a generally good looking film to looking intensely dated from the greenscreen digital flower background and the atrocious 2000s decor in…
"Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man."
The Big Lebowski is a film I tried to watch when I was around 19 years old and I hated it so much I had to turn it off after about 30 minutes. Well at 25 I finally got around to watching it again -- all the way through! -- and let me tell you I hated it just as much this time around. I just don't particularly think it *works*.
It's…
"No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey."
This, the very last line of the film, felt to me like a litmus test for how one could view The Brutalist as a whole. There seems to be a lot of people that chose to take this line at face value, as if the film was saying "this is what the narrative was about all along!" In that case, everything László went theough…
I went into this film with very few, but some tentative expectations, despite being so close to the original material. I've been a fan of Guadagnino's work in the past -- albeit not without my own hang ups about the limits to his range as a director -- and I did my dissertation partially on Burroughs' Queer. Its one of those books that sits so imperfectly within its own scattered, trailing, frankly unfinished narrative -- in fact, this is one…
