another movie, another portion of balm for the ache of a toiling mankind
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In the Cut 2003
Unlike my students, Detective Malloy was all technique. Maybe too much technique. He had my permission to spell motherfucker any way he wanted.
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023
almost wiseman-esque — modern life as a banal beaurocratic nightmare, infrastructure as obfuscation, progress as something inflicted rather than something desired
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Barbie 2023
some questions i would ask greta gerwig and the executives at mattel and warner bros discovery if journalists were still allowed to ask actual questions and if i was allowed to do interviews:
• what point is there in diverse casting if those actors are used only as set decoration?
• why does your utopia only contain heterosexual couples?
• what is utopian about a world without sex?
• without sex, what is the material difference between barbie and ken… -
