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I thought he was gay, and it didn't even occur to me until long after I saw the film that this was (apparently) not supposed to be the case.
I don't understand this, because they do have sex in the episode... over and over again.
Exactly. It is obviously deliberately stripped-down to achieve a certain effect. You are plunged into the world and given no recourse to stability *precisely* because of the information you lack. It's disorienting and unsettling. And it plays like a lean, suspenseful mashup of "No Country for Old Men" and "The Terminator".
LOL. Of course women can be abusers. But Harding is hardly one of the magnitude of Weinstein. This is just ridiculous.
Oh, I see, you're one of those awful people who don't believe women who speak out against their abusers, thus helping to perpetuate a cycle of victim shaming that allows this shit to keep happening.
Like I said, beyond reason.
Multiple outrageous false equivalencies. Weinstein is a sexual predator who habitually used his power to abuse and coerce women. Harding was a bit coarse and acted nastily toward some people.
You are beyond hope if you think both were "violent toward women" in the same way.
Yes, it's very good. It is a necessary illustration of how the politics of representation shape cultural narratives, often fallaciously. Tonya Harding was obviously a complicated and flawed person but certainly did not deserve the vilification and derision of a ravenous news media and by extension the public. The film really shines a light on the cycles of poverty and abuse that keep people from having a fair shot.
How on Earth is she remotely comparable to Weinstein? You are making no sense.
It does, though. "Hang the DJ" is a metaphor - the DJ is the one who controls what music you listen to (the system), and normally you just go along with it. To "hang the DJ" is to defy the system and dance to your own beat.
He's absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks for bragging about your homophobia. It was really necessary.
LOL, this smacks of homophobia and jealousy!
Also, "Call Me by Your Name" was shot on 35MM FILM, dumbass.
This doesn't even make sense, and would have been an entirely different premise. The idea here is that the white cultural hegemony oppresses and appropriates black culture, which is what happens in real life. It doesn't happen the other way around.
"Playtest" is like a combination of "Vanilla Sky" and "eXistenZ".
Just curious, what questions did it make you ask? Personally, I think it's got a lot of embryonic ideas floating about (the horrors of puberty, the precarity of the nuclear family structure, the sins of the father, etc.), but I don't feel they amount to much in the end. In my view "The Lobster" had a far more coherent concept and real depth and complexity in exploring social systems. "Sacred Deer" by contrast felt like an empty exercise.
Um?
"Boyhood" is an epic, decade-spanning bildungsroman about a middle-class boy and his family over the years. "The Florida Project" is an impressionistic slice-of-life chronicle about the disenfranchised residents of a budget motel. The subject matter is completely different, as are the films' respective styles and themes.
Absolutely not, in any way.
It was the most blatant manic-pixie-dream-girl in recent cinema. Such a sad role.
... Are you serious? She played a male sex fantasy. All she had to do was look sultry and swoon.