I understimated Mann here. I was quite alienated the first time i saw this, it never translated as more than a blueprint for what he would conceive afterwords. In retrospect, such a foolish mindset!
To me, it's so easy to be absorbed by its construction.
From the first time Neil arrives at the train station, Mann conceives its protagonist through his workplace, his wardrove, the delicacy in which he moves through these places, its biggest frustrations coming not only in…
“As we are here, talking about Rubinho, how many people are dying in Africa, in the Middle-East, Israel, Rio? And we are here, talking about ten years ago, just to prove someone something, so this movie can go to a Festival, to the movie theaters, TV, cable, so people can say “oh look he’s well” or “he’s not well”. Just to please someone something, just to please our egos. Mine, his, yours, or whoever's watching. We want to prove it,…
I find the romantic ideal of the poor being the more “close to Earth” than all of us peasants and their struggle being just part of their spiritual journey to self enlightenment more repulsive with each new entry of these indie darlings in the wave of vague anti capitalist narratives that do everything in their power to make you believe that a company like Amazon actually care about its workers.
But what did you expect from someone who takes the…
