hello, johanna. i’m petra’s father. she’s told me a lot about you. i know what you’re doing to her. and if you ever do it again, do you know what i’ll do? i’ll get you. and if you tell any grown-up what i just said…they won’t believe you. because i’m a grown-up. but you need to believe me, i will get you. remember this johanna…god watches us all.
undoubtedly one of the most referenced scenes from tár is the opening…
so do you believe it? that a cup of tea can contain a world.
in a state of awe at the moment. it feels as though someone dug through the crevices of my brain and machinations then proceeded to piece together a film with every core element of the ungodlyandroid: sci-fi, check; androids—are they human? can they be ever be human? why or why not?—check; familial conflict, check; technology vs humanity vs nature, check; luminous cinematography, check; great score, check;…
surely a debut. there’s some hints to what baker would eventually master in his future work: punchy dialogue and snappy editing. all that said, entirely too scrappy without it amounting to anything substantive.
i would literally have to k*ll myself in front of shane and carrie to change the course of their lives if i ever got friendzoned like that especially after getting topped with no a/c in the middle of a humid summer.
this film started off well enough but having known the overused love triangle with a woman trope, i had a feeling it would eventually stumble over itself. i just hate this trope so much cos it never ends well…
much to my initial resistance (thinking this was bros, billy eichner's upcoming rom com), i was convinced to watch this. this is the one time being nosy did not pay off. and i would very much like my two hours back. the script is hackneyed from start to finish, predictable with every movement. the editing is lazy—straight to dvd type. the music choices are what you'd expect on a corporate pride playlist to sound like. and the cinematography is practically…
