The world is a wasteland.
Depression is a terrible sickness. It’s addictive. It infects the very things that caused it in the first place; the ones we love, the things we care about, the places we grew up…and worst of all, most of the time you hardly even notice it’s there. An Elephant Sitting Still is the most deadly accurate and deeply affecting cinematic portrayal of depression ever put to screen, a timeless masterpiece of human nature.
I’ve been struggling…
I’m gonna use this as means to a review of the entire show, not just this “miniseries” (which isn’t a separate series in itself, just a more serialized group of 10 episodes to tell one story within the series). Anyway, here I go.
Adventure Time. I was 9 years old when this show first came out. I was used to watching cartoons before school and after dinner, around this time the most notable shows I remember watching were Total Drama…
Exotica is one of the most polarizing films I’ve seen in quite a while. On one hand, it’s a seductively beautiful and taboo examination of a vine of intertwined characters who all share a collective trauma. This alone forms the blueprint for a riveting psychological masterpiece, but on the other hand, I had some serious trouble getting myself to immerse into this spiraling labyrinth, not because of any structural issues but my sole concern lays solely on the characters and…
“Every gift involves sacrifice”
The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky’s final plea. Destruction is here and we all see it coming. The inevitable war machine is knocking on humanity’s door, and it is torture to live with the fact that we created our own destiny. Death is near, with only a glimmer of hope would you give all you love to save our species? God is not silent here. He listens, he watches, and he observes along with us as a…
Final Space has been canceled after 3 seasons. Not particularly the news I wanted to wake up to today, but here we are. I can’t put into words how amazing this show is, weaving comedy, adventure, action, and sci-fi into a beautiful & heartbreaking story about loss, togetherness, righteousness and friendship. I can’t explain how much Final Space means to me, it has no right ending the way it did but unfortunately that’s how television goes. If you haven’t already, go…
Watched this last night from about 11:30-2am, it’s hard putting into words the foggy, yet sublime experience I had with Bi Gan’s stunning second feature Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The Tarkovsky influence is worn on the film’s sleeve, yet it’s an entirely distinctly different cinematic experience than any of Tarkovsky’s works. I drew the Reygadas parallel when I watched Kaili Blues, and the slow, methodical camerawork only puts more stock into that comparison, especially with the beautiful yet subtly melancholic…
