“Rape is when a man consciously keeps a woman in fear.”
- Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau) as the best friend/co-worker of Lauren Hutton’s wry, determined live TV director, Leigh Michaels, who moves from New York to LA at the top of the film.
A cop: “Not until he does something.”
Our lead: “Rape? Murder?!”
I am going to be thinking about this film for a long, long time. This early career work demonstrates my beloved KING, John Carpenter, at his most…
I hated Poor Things and reviewed it for Vulture. That people are speaking of this as a rousing, weird, feminist treatise is insane. How are y’all so easily fooled by such glaring misogyny???? Excerpt below. Read my review here at Vulture.
“there’s a corroded spirit to the story, like it’s intermittently possessed by an edgelord who’s unaware most women menstruate, and an early-wave white feminist who believes having sex is the most empowering thing a woman can do. (For all the…
“Look Back is a reminder that behind every artwork that is experienced is the impression of the souls that brought it into being. I can never know the totality of how my art ripples through the world. Who it has touched, who it has changed, and what changed with them in the aftermath of coming in contact with the open soul of another through a piece of art. After all, every human touch changes you.”
I wrote about this lovely…
A film that on its surface has that endlessly cool posture of noir. Its aesthetics are endlessly rich and fascinating. The pulsating score. Characters wearing sunglasses at night. Smoke elegantly billowing toward ceilings. The soundscape of heated gambling. Characters curse, bleed, drink, smoke, gamble, kill. But most importantly they yearn. This is a film that is essentially about incredibly lonely people doing what they can to feel and capture joy. But they do so in ways that ensure their own…
What the fuck was this mess? Starts off fun but falls apart when it reaches toward something meaningful and revealing to say about the way men use and abuse women. Devolves into a “damn, bitches be crazy” story that obliterates the good will it engenders. Also, kinda chuckled at the framing of Thomasin Mackenzie’s lead character as quiet, yearning, and picked on by vapid mean girls. (And not a good chuckle, mind you.) Anya Taylor Joy innocent.
It’s a shame…this…
I was really disappointed in this. It’s far from bad, just absolutely shrug worthy. The writing fails the actors. I had little sense of Daniel Kaluuya’s character. He also turns in a remarkably sedate performance that I blame the writing giving him little to hold onto. Keke Palmer is given more to do on the emotional front due to her relationship with her father; she’s an utter, charismatic delight. But I overall felt the actors didn’t really get anything interesting…
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