My A levels are coming up in less than a month, and after a long week of revision I thought I’d treat myself to another rewatch of the goat.
I plan to write a much more extensive piece on 2049 after my exams are done because I just have so much that I want to say. I’m sure no amount of words that I manage to churn out can ever truly do this flawless masterpiece justice, but I’d like to try……

‘Mendacity is a system that we live in’, other than Tennessee Williams’ own work, this has never been more resonant than it is here. Though for Brick (and by proxy Williams) ‘liquor is one way out and death’s the other’, yet Kurosawa argues that this tendency to lie, to be honest liars is an intrinsic part of being human, even when the spirit of the murdered samurai is resurrected he still lies… it’s a pretty damning indictment on human nature. The…