Men will do so much for just a little head.
Viewed in IMAX while I wore over-ear headphones because it was… very loud. Even after as long as I’ve known of the film, I’d b never seen it in full. Grander in scale than most Miyazaki-films I have seen, but still so full of supernatural and mysterious elements. Not nuanced thematically, but still open to interpretation and discussion. I initially mistook Ashitaka’s stern look in a distasteful way, but I…
You know how teary-eyed some people get when they watch nature being destroyed by uncaring corporations?
That’s how I felt when I watched the good monsters “Avengers Assemble” all over King Ghidorah. Like a seasonal employee for the Kilaaks, he was harassed by a hoard of Karens, an interaction that ended in literal termination. I think the UNSC should be sued for wrongful use of power, because King be kingin’ until he was guillotined, which is not as easy to do on a guy with three heads. It just made me sad is all. 😢
It was a complete fluke stumbling on this film today and finding out that it was streaming somewhere despite being on the festival circuit currently. No one is ready for this. It’s a combination of slapstick at its best in the early silent years and what gag comedy has become in the present, the ultimate punchline to a knock knock joke presented to audiences a century ago that only now could be answered this potently. I’m in love with cinema…
I left at the part where the main actress fucks her dad, and he kills himself after finding out. So, I can’t imagine it’ll get much better from here when the farmer dude convinces the clearly traumatized woman that she deserves to marry him because God said so.
