obsessed with 1999 - the greatest year in film history
In a year full of emotionally manipulative movies, this film stands out for its purity of spirit. A moving story told with beauty, care and remarkable acting (even and especially from the children).
2024 was the year of the fake-woke movie. Anora pretends to support sex workers but shows them as naive and childlike. The Brutalist opens as a gritty immigrant story but then takes a 180 and becomes a justification for Zionism. Emilia Perez promises innovative Trans musical but dives into trans-stereotyping and Mexican fetishization.
The Oscars nominating them all shows either 1 of 2 things. 1. That the Academy enjoys the hard right turn or 2. How truly incapable it is of ethical judgement, in that it assumes the identities portrayed in a film speak to its moral quality. Eitherway? Pathetic.
When I was a child I found the Tower of Babel to be a disturbing and confusing story. God seemingly punishes the World for working together to build a massive tower to reach heaven. Don't the people just want to be closer to God? Why does he scatter them in confusion across the Earth, cursed to forever speak different tongues. Watching Avatar 2 revealed a new possible interpretation of that story to me. While children starved, a pandemic raged across…
This movie is made by the type of guy who hates classical music but name drops composers to justify his rants about how “vapid” modern pop music is. It seems the only thing the director is disgusted by more than lesbians is Asians and POC college students. A deeply joyless and dumb film. No one talks like this! especially about music. Why is she explaining basic elements of one of the most famous symphonies in the world to the Berlin…
