Memory keeper. Mostly music and movies, plus some series and video games. Obscure darkness meets pop culture glow.
I didn’t like to watch this, per se, but it was a visceral experience, I have to give it that. Also interesting how straightforward the message felt to me, and then it turned out that my wife and I understood it differently. Anyways, if it has to be A24 and a war theme, I’m team Civil War all the way.
I was going in as “let’s give it a shot” and come out “omg yes”. The style, music, cinematography, vibes, and Jordan’s acting were all on top. The story was not that strong though, but how it was done won me over still.
My fandom for Paul Giamatti just keeps rolling, I’m on target for the full filmography. This movie felt like one of those “a day in the life of” flicks where we just happen to follow these people along for a bit, taking a sneak peek into their lives. Very well directed and shot, feels lived in.
Great atmosphere, great casting, great acting, fun story. I didn’t see a role like this coming for Florence Pugh and she was so awesome: many different types and levels of emotions, and being light-hearted as well.
So unexpected, so amazing. Fantastic game and game design. It’s an experience that everyone should see, like movie classics.
I find it fascinating when I find such random movies that I’ve never heard of and there are actual A-list lead actors in it. Although it’s a pretty narrowly scoped setting, pretty much like a chamber drama but in an open world setting, so they didn’t have to spend on a whole lot more.
In any case, this is an absolutely fine little film. It has a post-apocalyptic backdrop but it’s a super simple love triangle flick, so any sci-fi setting is just flavor that doesn’t really have an impact on what happens. And as simple as it is, it gave me just enough ambiguity to look up thread on Reddit and find that there are different views on how the whole thing ends even. I like these kind of tightly focused movies that give a lot more than what they seem to offer.
This was so much better than what I had expected. I expected a Friday night semi-dumb rom-com, and what I got was an entertaining and kind coming of age movie. It’s a solid 7/10.
This is a masterpiece in storytelling, and I don’t mean the one-shot setup (that’s another master-of-craft aspect though) but how my understanding got built up during the episodes. First the police’s actions seem unrealistically harsh, I couldn’t quite figure out the investigators’ take (are they angry, do they have a personal angle, should they have those things), but then as the backstory develops and more shades of colors get added things fall more in place. By the end it’s just the shock and the question marks remain.
My overall take is that it’s not one person to be blamed for all that happened. It’s not the boy had issues or the parents were shitty. It’s the amalgamation of all those parts: the boy being somewhat troubled, the parents being distanced, communication in the family not happening, social media putting petty mocking under a magnifying glass, children being mean and cruel to each other, education on the use and handling of internet being non-existent, consequences of actions not being understood, and a lot more.
It’s gotta be tough like rock to be a parent these days, that’s for sure.
I mostly read that people think it’s a okay movie with an amazing lead actor. My take is the opposite: I think this is great acting directed amazingly well. I’m a fan of Aronofsky anyway, so there’s that, but it was his choices for the vision of this film that made it stand out for me. By the end I settled on a 6/10 “okay” score overall, which climbed to a 7 because of how beautifully he portrayed the very last scene specifically.
This move conveys feelings in an amazing way, it makes me feel stuff. I am so sorry for the guy, but then there’s the “actions and consequences” aspect, but somehow I’m still rooting for him so that maybe there’s some kind of hope… At the end, coming back from that fantasy of “what if” I so felt his pain and fear of what’s coming next. Fantastic direction by Spike Lee.