I’m bummed that well made movies by directors who obviously have an aesthetic vision so often feel the need to show us they’re smarter than us: Don’t you know that’s not how things really are? The girl can’t get the boy in the end. Even our relationships are transactional in America. Defeat will always be snatched from the jaws of victory. Am I getting sentimental in my old age? Maybe. But, man, I’d like to go to an auteur’s movie…
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Poor Things 2023
A movie where perspective is dressed up as empowerment. Classic change your thinking, not your world bs that allows a boring director to think his exhibitionist schlock is shocking and profound. Thankfully, Poor Things also seems destined to be one of those movies that will get a bunch of awards only to be forgotten by year’s end.
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