Lover of film and aspiring to make them in the future.
Trying to write some reviews on here if I feel like it.
Shoah is special, putting its subject aside. It's a breathing film, allowing you to actively reflect while you're watching, taking the time to let the interviewees speak out, not reducing them to talking heads stating keypoints and arguments in a snappy fashion, but making you feel their struggle to say what has to be said, allowing you to attach and empathize with the unbelievable and incomprehensible. Everything supported by calming and simultaneously haunting cinematography and sound design.
There are moments…
You can't not love a film, which introduces the main character with a shot up his ass.
I kind of hyped this up for myself to a point, where this film could never meet my expectations. 'Good Time' is one of my favourite films after all and I was expecting this to be even better, since I heard all the praise it received beforehand. Though I wasn't blown away as much as I hoped to be, this was still so…