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You guys are nuts, the song is fabulous. The movie is super stylized and pretty campy so the song fits like a glove.
Could be. I would like confirmation from Payne or Giamatti on that one.
Exactly. There must be some explanation. Nobody could be that oblivious. Maybe Giamatti had trouble keeping the contact in the same eye for the whole shoot?
And yet you're trying to argue that the show reflects the unintelligence of America... a show that is not originally American, and which exists in numerous other countries around the world. Maybe update your thesis to the "unintelligence of humanity" then...?
The show started in Netherlands, you dense fucking sod, so you should be writing about the "unintelligence" of the Dutch if anyone.
You do realize saying "woke" unironically makes you sound like a complete moron, right?
Standard digital, and I don't regret it. Nolan feeling the need to film a movie on IMAX 70mm when the majority of it is people standing around rooms talking is the height of pretentiousness.
Yep, as others have said it's an annoying Nolan signature. It seemed like an effective score but it didn't need to be used almost nonstop!
Right, we shouldn't dare to show kids something as wicked and obscene as the human body. That's definitely the most disturbing and objectionable thing about a movie focused on a weapon capable of destroying the planet. Good thing your mind's in the proper place.
Nope, once again, Ozu is clearly the guiding influence.
Nah, Ozu is definitely the primary influence.
Ooh, I didn't think of "Under the Silver Lake," but that's a solid comparison. For me, the Coen brothers and Charlie Kaufman came to mind most, as well as Scorsese's "After Hours."
I don't think it matters; it's all happening in one way or another, whether in material reality or in his psychological reality. In other words, it all has meaning.
Um, are you really that dense? The movie is deliberately showing over-the-top and debauched behavior; it's not an educational video for children.
That was hilarious. The production design in this film is so detailed and rich.
Oh, hello there prude. No, the film is not recommended for prudes.
Huh, weird. I don't remember the first being in 2.35:1 in theaters, but that was a long time ago. Why chop off the top and bottom of the frame?
Really average. It looked great, of course, but where were the laughs? They really dropped the ball on "The Babadook" parody especially by making the kid Maggie when obviously it should have been Bart.
How is this hard to understand? Narratively, it establishes Park's background as a child actor, reveals how he's repurposed his trauma into Jupiter's Claim, and explains his obsession with Jean Jacket, which is analogized to the chimp as a creature that turns on the hubristic humans who think they can tame it. The parallel is made explicit in the simian outfits worn by Park's "boys."
On a thematic level, the whole Gordy incident ties into the film's examination of how tragedy/peril is sensationalized in the media and trivialized as spectacle for us to look upon and consume. Notice the prominence of the gaze between Gordy and Park (whose position we assume via POV shot).
Been done, and it was horrible: https://moviechat.org/tt9694312/Stardust
I don't think we're going to get a better Bowie movie than Todd Haynes' "Velvet Goldmine," which captures the allure of Bowie without being directly about him.