actually glad i watched this alone so i could hoot and holler uninhibited. fucking awesome. i know friends of mine have better words for this and i am content to be a cheerleader. i think this one's the best sequel to the original, easily.
"I feel like something bad is gonna happen to me. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way."
I kinda want to give myself a little slap on the wrist for this, but: if Twin Peaks were documentary-style found footage horror, it might be a bit like this. Its eye is maybe a bit less subtle than Lynch's, relying really heavily on slow zooms up to a grainy image where something tucked into a dark corner becomes clearer…
11 or 12 years since I last saw it? I was still living alone in San Francisco. Throughout so much of this, there is either no music at all or there is a persistent, flat pulsing sound; a strange, resonating drone; the wind blowing. It is not music — it's more like something in place to emphasize the absence of music. Dingy and pale/white interiors, a Tokyo that feels simultaneously overcast and awash in diffuse sunlight, drained of color... All…
