“Fate will unwind as it must!”
I enjoy how the fragmentation in the duration of Mike's own life translates to a fragmentation in the duration of the film itself. We get moments and snapshots, vignettes almost, rather than a cohesive linear narrative (especially at the start to mid portion of the film). This, to me, is an interesting take on the Shakespearean basis of the text (part of it being an interpretation of multiple King Henry plays). The sharp demarcation between scenes and acts in plays…
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Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. There is genuinely no reason for why this has to exist, for why so much time was spent trying to release this movie. What more I've learned is that the director is a Zionist and claims that "wokeism" in the left wing movement is dismantling the left in the classic horseshoe theory logic of the unread
visceral, I felt a hole in my chest when the hole in the picket fence came into view. The pan into sky at the end....
*watched before "I Married a Witch", which was also really good