A ghost story about the unknowable forces unleashed by the internet? A horror story about zoning reform? A love story about how we all die alone? A film more 2001 than Black Hawk Down?
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The Hottest August 2019
Less directly about climate change than about white people's refusal to consider themselves working class and the continued belief in protestant work ethic overcoming systemic disadvantages. Great shots, maddening interviews, manages to stay away from didacticism even when you really want it. There's a guy who says "Capitalism is owning things. If you own this table, that's capitalism. So if anything, we need more capitalism. We need to be able to own clean air," and I really wanted the director to put the camera down, pull out a whiteboard, and just explain some stuff to him. I understand why she didn't though.
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IWOW: I Walk on Water 2020
One really cool thing about Allah's film style is that having the sound and images not be directly correlated totally undermines expectations of subjectivity; it really creates a feeling of community where no one stands in for the whole, even Frenchie. As in his other films, the way he gives space to the full, wandering answers of his interviewees is great, but it strays from that more the longer the film goes on.
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