might be backtracking in this whole “movies” thing
I was not someone who is very well received by the people in power, either in the republic or in the cities. So we don’t have much support. Then, if you are waiting for any support from the state it takes maybe one, two, or maybe three years. I simply understood that I should be comfortable with continuing the low-budget films. And then I feel somehow more secure that we will come to the end. Many films in these small…
checked in on our old friend, CIA analyst/supersoldier Jack Ryan for The A.V. Club
acting like i’m gonna kill myself just so an angel has to watch a bunch of my hype moments and aura
part of what i mean when i say that it harkens back to sci-fi is how its dialogue reads like it’s out of an Asimov paperback—weirdly stilted, rife with out-of-place idioms, just all around strange. yet, like those pulps, it creates dissonance between the audience & characters, intellectualizing every interaction. what makes that so interesting in the context of The Shrouds is how it’s a film of a man searching for a solution to a totally visceral problem.
