Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Cute little viewing.... just very very random that Johnny Depp plays a random as fuck Irish guy who is apparently Romani and his name is Roux .... it's not giving sense but I guess they prioritized vague 2000s ahistorical vibes which is .... historically accurate for that year if we're being honest.
I love to see a film delve into the scientific psyche, and to present a scientist as 3 dimensional instead of a tabula rasa singularly propelled by one desire to voraciously solve (as scientists are generally made out to be) in a dehumanizing/super-humanizing way. I like to see every aspect of a scientist explored down to their interest in art, unintelligible visions that live within, their emotional worlds, their political, moralistic and value driven engagements/ideologies etc. I found myself feeling…
a study in trauma ... with each character's own expression of it beautifully examined. this film is really a study in the heavy cultural and historical influences on the manifestation of grief and trauma. it zero's in on how far human agony can go and the narratives we tell ourselves in an effort to survive. the post-famine irish landscape is teeming with an unknowable injury that the mind and soul don't heal from, so to witness this through the eyes…