This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
All That Glimmers Is Not Gold
Most of the time, I see a film that I like or that strikes me, and it slinkily takes its time entering into my amygdala. I think about it over time and then at once -boom- I know I love it forever.
Uncut Gems was not one of those films.
From the opening moments of it, with its ambient and somehow ironically bothersome synth score, I was completely obsessed. Something tells me, that that’s…
I was talking to a friend about this miniseries today, and they inaccurately guessed the genre as being “psych horror”. While I was correcting them, I was forced to figure out exactly, what this long strange trip of a show’s genre actually was. I decided on whimsy-meets-acid-trip-meets-love-story. With personal growth.
I loved the parallel universe that Cary Joji Fukunaga’s creates. First of all, it was beautiful, but it didn’t go without merit. The best way I can describe it is like…
