So much better on rewatch. Videodrome was so ahead of its time, tackling such complex themes such as how even back then people were getting desinsitised to ultra violence and sexual/sadomasochistic contect and how That can affect everyone’s psyche. The theme of television being the new retina of the eye is such a good one because since 1983 screens have consumed us and that is basically true.
This combined with global tensions and how all of us have a hidden…
So this is the great fellini everyone has been talking about. Watched this on the big screen.
A deeply personal project where fellini projects his own personality into the film. The way the film blends reality and dream is amazing and sometimes you wonder what you’re seeing is real or a dream. Fellini is truly an imaginative, almost childlike man but at the same time a bit narcisist in the way he treats everyone around him. The film is in…
A dark and cynical revisionist western that completely destroys all the tropes in the western genre. The violence here is much more realistic and not operatic or glamorous at all, every single shootout and massacare ends in a tragedy and the characters don’t just go on about their lives as usual like in older westerns. The world is modernising around the characters and even they know their prime is over, bloody hell theres a fucking car in this western movie and the posse even dies at the end symbolising the end of the traditional western world.
Words cant describe how much i love this film. Only Sergio Leone could take such a simple premise and stretch it into almost 3 hours.
Almost every scene is filled with tension and a sense of coolness which gets me hyped up. Seriously every single scene is so well shot in almost a pulp like way which we associate with westerns now and the mixing between closeups on the character’s faces showing their nervousnes and planning during pivotal scenes and sweeping…
