While I appreciate Korine trying to experiment with new forms after his new found love for Tiktoks and video games, Baby Invasion ends up working against itself too much to be fully successful. Korine can't completely detach himself from the structures of film form/exhibition. This is a movie that wants you to be barely paying attention, getting drinks, dancing, talking to your friends while glancing at the screen occasionally to see what's going on. The format I saw it in…
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Revolutionary Girl Utena 1997
In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Rosalind famously dons full male dress to disguise herself as Ganymede under which she tries to woo Orlando. She never believes herself to be an actual man, but instead treats herself to powers that are normally beyond her reach as a woman; particularly the freedom to court a lover. Much has been made of RGU’s treatment of gender, but Utena never truly considers herself to be a boy; her goal is to become a…
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The Substance 2024
Suffers from the Black Mirror Problem. There is no society that exists outside of its own sci-fi conceit. Every character/world building element only reinforces the feminist idea at its core: women's bodies are evaluated harshly and they are forced to do whatever they can to stay looking young and beautiful. This is true of course, but without a more true to life world built around it, the satire falls flat. It's all too cartoonishly unbelievable.
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The Age of Innocence 1993
"The farewell scene.. I usually leave the theater after that scene to take the picture away with me."
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