I liked the part where they introduce a prophecy of someone who is destined to save the Valley and is depicted wearing blue with an animal on their shoulder, and this is being told to Nausicaä...who is wearing blue...with an animal on her shoulder... we love a little subtle foreshadowing.
Honestly, maybe I just wasn't as locked in as this film needed me to be but this movie was paced so fast that I barely had time to process what…
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Man, well this was kinda shit.
I can't believe this is the same writer/director of The Banshees of Inishiren, a film I adore because of its writing and nuanced characters. This however felt like an amateurish first draft that I can only chalk up to being an Irishman's uneducated view of what he thinks southern rural America is like, even then the messaging feels so confused that I question what his intentions even were to begin with. The way the…
I can't believe it. This nearly three-and-a-half-hour film of a woman doing chores is actually as brilliant as people say. I didn't know if I would be able to tough it out during that first third, but I swear once you settle in, the film becomes practically hypnotic and I could not stop watching. Coming from a single-parent household I couldn't help but see my mother reflected in Jeanne at times, which made the film shockingly personally affecting. I don't…
Oh my god. I don't know if I'm even capable of articulating thoughts on this right now, so this might just be me rambiling because I'm kind of exhausted and overstimulated, but this was spellbinding. An immaculate harmony of incredibly tight cinematography, acting, score, editing, and writing coming together to make something that genuinely feels special. A thought-provoking look at what it means to be an artist, as well as an immigrant story that is not afraid to put an…
