Before the movie I got into a conversation with a homeless ex-con who told me about how long and unending the nights are when you have nowhere to sleep. How vulnerable it feels to have to let your guard down and risk everything you have in order to make it to the next day. In order to survive, he said, you have to become invisible. They are the invisible people. But if you know where to look, you will see.β¦
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Spring Breakers 2012
βJust pretend itβs a fucking video game. Act like youβre in a movie or something.β
A toxic lullaby. Pop art. Disney Channel shotgun ballerinas cocked and ready to explode. MTV nursery rhymes and pixelated dreams. Moving as one organism until it becomes religious - a collage of writhing sweaty bodies made sacred in the light of the humid neon haze. Drenched in fluids and powders and smoke and money and frozen in time. Blood and bubbles mixing in a hellishβ¦
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Morvern Callar 2002
Still one of the greatest subjective POVs Iβve ever encountered. Samantha Morton is like a shooting star in this movie, lending a gentle warmth and humanity to a character that could easily be rendered sociopathic in the hands of lesser artists. Lynne Ramsay displays such an acute understanding of our interior lives β how emotions shape our decisions, how sensory experiences mediate our understanding of ourselves, and the fleeting moments of human connection that haunt our physical & emotional spaces. Anβ¦
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The Wicker Man 1973
βThe little old beetle goes round and round, always the same way, you seeβ¦ till he ends up right up tight to the nail. Poor old thing.β
Thereβs just something really cozy about this. Formally goofy as hell but at a certain point you realize youβre laughing with the movie, not at it. Brilliant deconstruction of organized religion. We are all equally clueless of who the real gods may be. But why not be on the side that laughs, dances,β¦
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Inland Empire 2006
I don't say this lightly: this may be the scariest film ever made.
One of myΒ biggest pet peeves since I started getting into movies around 5 years ago has been hearing that damn word over and over again: terrifying.
βHe gives a terrifying performance.β
βWhat a terrifying villain!β
βDid you see that part when that thing happened? Wow! That was terrifying!βThis word is tossed around so often, used so overdramatically to describe anything the least bit uncomfortable or tense,β¦
