This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So the movie is called "Men", its a british a24 flick about a lady who's (relevantly black) husband throws himself out the window of their apartment because she wants a divorce. To process her grief she takes a vacation to a mansion in the countryside, where a bunch of creepy men (all played by the same actor) harass her in different ways.
At the end of the movie the woman is attacked by all the different men one by one…
A lot of great performance and filmmaking but it's difficult to reflect back on a movie fondly when it has such an insubstanstial script.
In the end, Laurence Anyways is a tragic film of love that uses an apparent sex change as it's catalyst. But it is not, as some might have thought, about a transgender woman. Hardly it could be said to be about a man who thinks he is transgender, as much of the film has a hard time centering itself on a main character so to speak, except for his or her relation to other characters.
And this is the fatal…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Punch-Drunk Love
10/10
I call Punch-Drunk Love the perfect film constantly. It's riddled with flaws. Small, tiny errors pepper the trail paved. So why do I call it the perfect film? Despite all of Punch-Drunk Love's flaws, it emulates perfectly that suffocating feeling that we know so well and are so fond of. First when it grabs hold we avoid it, we run away. Or we smash in frustration of not knowing. But it does have hold, and we settle…
