Not the best movie for watching on the eve of your first Mother’s Day as a new mom and then you’re awake from 3:30a-7 with hangxiety 😂 that was SCARY to dream about and then ruminate on the movie for hours in darkness w the spins lol. Few movies can make such an impression on me that they haunt me for literally 4 hours straight and then beyond.
I know being a parent requires intimacy and that requires vulnerability with…
I preferred the filmmaking style of Brown’s previous documentary, the Order of the Myths. There, content was jam-packed but the observational style still left breathing room and was entirely focused on substance. This one felt a bit self-serious/self-aware, and was slower in a way that challenged me. The camera work and editing was styled so much like Chef’s Table and a lot of others these days, with tons of artsy lingering, golden hour landscape gazing, and handheld-following-people-approach-buildings-from-5-feet-behind and so forth.…
One of my favorite parts of this was when a Dad of someone who died from oxy told the heirs of that pharma legacy that they hoped their testimony would “haunt them for the rest of their life,” and Nan Goldin mumbled at the screen, “It won’t.” 🔁
I’ve spent a lot of my life thinking about power, and in turn conspiring how to fuck it up. In my past career, I persuaded big consumer products and retail companies to…
