Visceral and uncompromising, McQueen makes you feel as if you’re in the prison with these prisoners and through the no holds barred realist filmmaking their plight seems as immediate as if it was happening at the exact moment you’re watching the film.
It’s staggering and almost unimaginable that the events depicted happened in 1981 and that the actual experiences were very likely even worse than what is shown on screen. Very grateful to see this for the first time (and…
From now on, whenever I have a problem with my computer, I’ll know that’s its way of saying, “Fuck you, you stupid dumb human. One day the fictional tech uprising of Kyle Mooney’s 2024 film Y2K will be a reality and you and your whole shit for brains race be done-zo. So laugh it up while you can, because eventually The Matrix will be real and no lady hackers will be able to save you, not even grunge cyberpunk Angelina Jolie.”
“I didn’t come here for licks!”
Funny and sad, smart and stupid, interesting and dull, beautiful and depressing, no one living in a small community is just one thing, and no man is an island, even if he lives on one.
Friendship can mean the world to people and for some people it is the world.
Both a heartfelt and cynical treatise on what it means to be “nice”, and proof that having animals in your life makes your life better.
This movie makes me want to be more confident and more subservient at the same time. So, confidently subservient, or subserviently confident? It may be impossible to know.
The two phenomenal performances are riveting and the whole thing is shot with a fun and exciting style. Emotions rise and fall all over the hotel room and closeups sell the relationship with all its give and take, frustration, and passion. The vibe settles into what feels like a distant successor to…
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