"Now that I know you, I can't not know you."
ahhh this was so sweet and so charming 🥹🥹 one of my favorites from this year so far. harris dickinson and lola campbell were SO adorable as jason and georgie (i wonder if any of the sweet little moments they shared on screen were improvised ?? the imaginary conversation at the train station was brilliant!!)
lola perfectly captures georgie's conflicting desires to be independent and protect herself and to open…
very adorable and warm! max pelayo and reese gonzales (who really reminded me of jack grazer and his character fraser in wrwwr) were also really sweet. i haven't read the book but i feel like much of what made it work was lost in the adaptation. ari's interior life felt very empty, and i feel like a lot of the scenes in the second act — when the boys were separated — could've been used to flesh that out, but…
wow. this was insane. an incredible, incredible cinematic accomplishment. i left the theatre speechless, just in awe.
not gonna lie, i didn't get a lot of the facts and the events bc nolan constantly jumped back and forth between the timeline, and i didn't know what was happening a lot of the time. would've been a smoother viewing experience if i had read up on oppenheimer and gotten some context beforehand but! the emotions broke through, in no small part…
i love this a lot <33 i truly felt the childlike wonder sitting in the theatre, i can see why so many people are saying this is some of his best work. the concept of staging it as a theatre play within the film is a brilliant layer that i didn't expect + erica dorn's graphic design work is so perfect and fitting!
asteroid city is so wonderfully wes, and i'm so glad this came out after all the lifeless…
