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coming out overall really positive on it as a piece of BPD girlie cinema and a fucking bummer of a screwball comedy. The sex work aspect is kind of the least successful part of that but I’m still turning it over. To be clear when I make this comparison I think Showgirls is in another league, but I do think they are complimentary films in a very specific way.
Earnestly I think that final scene is utterly critical to making…
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Three stars almost entirely because of everything up until after the second rape scene, after which Eggers decided he didn’t give a shit about any of that and decides to incoherently try five different things, abandoning all of the technical craft and thematic weight that made it interesting in favor of a rizzless-riff on FFC’s Dracula. It doesn’t have the thematic focus to pull off either tonality, but he can’t square a gothic horror about pedophilic grooming and a gothic…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Feb 2022
The nuclear family is an incestuous cult designed to train and beat you like a dog until you are nothing but the pet of the patriarch and the matriarch. The nuclear family has its own internal language, structures, rituals, games, economy, and politics, designed to isolate you from everything and everyone but itself. The nuclear family will say grace together over the rapes and assaults facilitated between its walls. The nuclear family is as entropic as it is incestuous, doomed to…
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★★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2023
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Never shoulda smoked that shit, now I’m on the roof recognizing my childhood was stolen from me by my wife, whose childhood was stolen from her, that we are trapped in a lineage of generational rape like the home that we built together from the ashes of our stolen lives, that only I can break this cycle of pedophilia and denial but I can’t tell if we’re bonding or if this will be a bad memory, if this is just…
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