“That’s one of the many ideas I’m interested in exploring.”
Quite mesmerizing how this one treads such a fine line between literalness and surrealism; there are scattered moments throughout that are sure to raise a lot of eyebrows. And even though every lose end ties up in the finale, it’s a most exhilarating feeling, going through six hours of discreet madness during which you’re never exactly sure if anything begs for an answer, let alone if it’ll be given.
This…
The way my heart skipped a beat once Mariah started playing, an all-timer of a needle drop, the kind that stops the world and sends you on a journey only a genius as mad as Ari could ever come up with — inside of a bigger, absurd, all-encompassing trip to so many states of mind, one you’ll only have a hard time keeping up with if you can’t go along with the debauchery.
Biggest laughs in the dark this year so…
For all the most splendorous compositions Virginie has been delivering in the past decade, this is evidently a highlight; one that puts her at arms with “life, so long, so short”; and the unending number of people who are other people’s children — aren’t we all? An anti-mother drama with a maternal crave, and a longing for undivided attention that may never come…
And the finale, a homage to… The Worst Person In The World? So soon? Vamos nas águas de março ainda, cara.
“All you need is to want it.”
A plot built around wishing upon, with no material threat... I get why some would regard Wonder Woman 1984 as lazy. On my end, I just find it to be one rare beautiful tentpole, on how innocence can quickly turn into ignorance, and the price one pays for that.
Patty Jenkins really built something here. Ultra-reminiscent of the blockbusters of the era it’s set in, when some dumb idea could become the most massive of…
I’m a rare beast, I say Michael Bay’s an auteur all the time, but that I don’t like his art; and then today that shit came out to bite me.
My boys, what a perfect marriage of every high-octane masterpiece set in LA and the dumbest exaggerations a man in love with explosions could ever come up with. I’m awestruck at the audacity. There’s Speed in there, Heat, T2, it has it all; but then as soon as this thing starts,…
