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loses a lot of the momentum & intrigue that it successfully builds in the first act, and fails to capitalize on the interesting themes that it grasps at
a fun watch but it's hard not to think about how much better this could have been with a tighter and more focused script
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there's a contrarian part of me that wants to defend Folie a Deux, which is a film that i often feel is a victim of Bad Faith Criticism
for example, i don't think that this film was created to spite lonely men who resonated with the first film, and i don't feel that this interpretation holds up to a good faith reading
in fact, i think the film has some really interesting things to say - i loved the idea…
this is not how life is supposed to be.
you’re not sure what it’s supposed to be like, exactly. but you can tell that you're different from everyone else.
you know it. your family knows it. your friends know it. something is wrong with you.
this is not how life is supposed to be.
it feels like there is no space in this world for people like you, so you lose yourself in the worlds where you can be exactly…
i mean, if you want to watch bo burnham break down in front of the camera several times while expressing his deep agony and making references to suicide, dissociation, and derealization, then this special has a lot of that
there is so much of this special that is just bo Working Through Some Stuff, and while i admire the vulnerability of the material here, it doesn't make for a particularly entertaining or compelling hour and a half. this is a…