“You think they’re yours but they’re not. Everybody that walks in your door becomes a problem. Anybody that comes in contact with you. I didn’t wanna be part of your problem but I am.”
sex as conversation; people sliding into each other through words, legs spread wide like lips unpursed.
responsibilities as garbage; all of it piling up on each other until it creates a mountain of guilt and paranoia. it reproduces more and more of itself and it never…
“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied.”
telepathy
bones and all
love torn and forlorn
looking up at the stars for an answer. you know how this is going to go yet you keep trudging on the path of opening doors built to be locked and shut. don’t do it! one that touches on the uniquely human longing for understanding another being; the lustful, borderline selfish desire to bury yourself into another’s skin and say “I get you, I see you, and…
with this being only Egoyan’s third feature film, it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that it ultimately all feels very held back and restrained, in a way that almost feels intentional when you analyze the film’s metatextual content and it’s ideas of the nature of artifice in film. seeds of what is to come in his later stuff Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter are planted here; like his fascination in playing with labyrinthine structure, analysis of relationships, ideas…
editing this review (currently writing in december 14th) cause im not satisfied with the way my old review came out: this fucking sucks. no way of really getting around that, this is genuinely one of the worst films of all time. bottom of the barrel filth. slop churned out by companies that couldn’t give less of a fuck about film. spits in the face of movies and anyone who even cares slightly or dearly about them. this marks the death…
dthcsn liked EliteMF’s review of Anora
dthcsn liked DAVEY’s review of Civil War
dthcsn liked matt lynch’s review of Civil War
dthcsn liked Doug Holler’s review of Civil War
dthcsn added RoboCop to their watchlist
