A crisis of faith in humanity.
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Mulholland Drive 2001
I thought I’d make more sense of it the second viewing, but I honestly forgot how insane this film is. If you spend the majority of the time trying to follow what’s happening, you’re going to give yourself a headache. You have to surrender to it, which is very difficult for me to do. David Lynch has and always will be someone I admire as a creative more than his actual works. Mulholland Drive is such a complex expression of…
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Nosferatu 2024
I’ve come to realise I don’t love Robert Edgar’s style, as great as he is at his craft. All the details are great, from cinematography, to production, to performances and dialogue (except everyone in 1800’s Germany is apparently old timey British people?). But the gothic atmosphere is so thick, and everything is to the extremes and lacking any subtlety or restraint that it became cliched and wasn’t unsettling to me. The only scares end up being periods of silence followed…
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A Real Pain 2024
Whilst Jessie and Kieran’s character dynamic was complex, nuanced and well performed, everything surrounding it felt extremely stale to me. The performances of the secondary characters and even the tour itself feels so rehearsed and surface level in contrast to the main characters. And maybe that’s the point? Regardless, the look and feel of a film has such an impact on how you experience it, and I think there’s something keeping me from any raw emotion I’m supposed to be feeling. Still good tho.
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