Letterboxd — Your life in film

This was more than just a film to me. Speaks to the most deeply disturbing aspects of human beings. I hope people can see how this is about more than just “them” — fascists, Nazis — it’s also about our condition — and you (me too ofc). Not only would you most likely be them in this scenario, if you had their bloodline or whatever, but you’re probably them right now in another context, if you considered every human and…

he was the boy every girl in school liked, but i liked him most. to be fair, it wasn’t much of a competition. i knew him best, because i was his best friend. but for awhile, i thought that’s all i’d ever be. because i’d had the misfortune of being a girl born in a boy’s body.

we met in eighth grade. he was the new kid, and i was his first friend. later, i liked to say that i…

Huh. At least after my first viewing, this is one of my least favorite Wes Anderson films. And considering I love sci-fi and love Wes Anderson, I should've loved this?! But nope. It's an extremely strange, oddly low-key, super nerdy alien encounter parable about... I don't know what? What was that? The most confounding Wes Anderson film yet. So many characters stuffed into a film-within-a-play meta story that only makes it more confusing. That narrative structure really took me out…

A Three-Part Analysis of Hit the Road: Aesthetic, Family, and Ideological Critique 

Overview of the Film

"Don’t be scared."

A family of four and their sick dog embark on a road trip, that at first, is left unclear where exactly they are headed and why. It is gradually revealed that they are driving to a hidden location in the mountains, where they will be sending their eldest son to escape the country in search of freedom and better opportunities. To do…

A film has never impacted me in this way before. I left the theater in a trance. It was as if all the nasty ideas festering inside my head over the last few years had been poured out onto a canvas, and interrogated in stunning detail.

The struggle to maintain some semblance of humanity in an inhuman society, to fend off the ever looming (and oh so appealing) threat of nihilism, is something I've battled with for a long while…