It's not our fault! It's just the way we're wired!
Unsurprisingly, this film really shines when Kane Parsons is in his element: single-camera shaky POV footage where the threat can be just perfectly hidden enough for maximum dread. The long sequence in the middle that fits that bill was one of the most exciting and dynamic in a horror movie since... I'm not sure when! I wish it had been longer, but I definitely think it couldn't have sustained the…
If you existed, I'd divorce you.
Nuclear hot fire.
Profoundly insulting film experience. Robbie and Elordi seem like they're in different movies the whole time. The occasional aesthetic choice really does hit but 90% of this is moodboard slop inexplicably scored with radically inappropriate music choices.
One thing I really found interesting was the sense of time in this film. Namely there isn't one, specifically in the way that there isn't one when you're a kind of stupid person half-reading a classic novel that extends over multiple generations... Really makes you think.
"Lord! I come to thee without crown or sceptre. Forget the king's crimes, and remember only your child's sufferings."
All of the most beautiful people you've ever seen are fucking and murdering each other. Incredibly beautiful movie on every possible aspect of craft or execution. Even on a shitty restream I was luxuriating in the costume design especially.
This is a very Protestant movie. Catherine de Medici engages in a series of Yzma-like schemes to end the lives of various…
