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★★★★★ Masterpiece
★★★★☆ ⠀⠀ Excellent
★★★☆☆ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Good
★★☆☆☆ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Bad
★☆☆☆☆ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀No
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
*Titane* is an exploration of transhumanism. While the meat of the movie is grotesque body horror, Ducournau ultimately leaves us with a birth – a triumph as Alexia has fully transcended humanity. Left at that, it could have been a somewhat interesting, somewhat flawed, but ultimately harmless movie.
But Ducournau chose to add the metaphor of gender transition to make some point about oppressed womanhood. She forces her cis protagonist to transition, just to set up detransition as a moment of…
I last saw Gone Girl four years ago. At the time, I was obsessed with David Fincher movies. Gone Girl was a movie I kept coming back to because of its smart writing and unexpected turns. I loved it, despite not believing that someone like Amy could actually exist.
Nowadays, I don't tend to watch movies like this anymore. Since having embarked on a gender transition, my life is extraordinary and thrilling enough that I have lost the need for…
"The flowers on the film are there for those who know where to look" —Guillermo del Toro, audio commentary on 'El laberinto del fauno'
If you don't know the audio commentary with Kenneth Loring, there's a new Coen film waiting for you.