I try to be cautious when I say these sort of things but I have the strongest urge to call this my favorite movie of the year. The way the writers are able to effortlessly characterize an entire ensemble with just conversation is a talent of which I am horribly envious. Each character shows a whole life and story and that is not only because of the writing but is completed by the acting, clothing, directing, and everything else.
There…
Y’all know that gag in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay? Where Neil Patrick Harris was at a brothel or something and he’s doing his business with one of the accountants and after some time she runs out with a burnt ass and screams “HE FUCKING BRANDED ME.”
Let’s just say NPH was Julia Ducournau, the brand was Titane, and the ass was my brain.
But like, in a positive sense?
Something about the chaotic colorful oneshot whodunnit just works for me? This and Climax are one of my cups of tea.
To paraphrase Walter Murch from In The Blink of An Eye (a book with great theory and lesser advice), a cut is like a blink; a signal to think. So I think when you take that away, the viewer is in a mental staring contest, where instead of being cued to readjust or produce a new thought, you’re left cognitively…
Preteen age of curiosity, mysteries of adolescence, risk and youth, saying goodbye before it’s your time, remembering the way that it felt to be with them; all these things are captured so precisely and imprecisely in the exact right ways in Aftersun.
Fuck me royally for not having seen it last year but I know myself and perhaps my heart couldn’t have taken it then. I needed a heaving cry today and I got one. I feel as though Charlotte…
if you read this i love you for letting me share my heart with you (mild thematic spoilers) (tw: mentions of su*c/de and mental health struggles):
i have recovered from watching soul. i mean that as a compliment, i am in pain and bliss- as pixar wants me to be.
when the trailers first came out, i brushed it aside, thought i was going to pass it up... and then i saw the reviews come in for it and each…
