I watched both this and M. Knight Shyamalan's Old soon after doing mushrooms for the first time and they were two of the scariest viewijg experiences I've ever had. The trip itself was honestly beautiful, but for several days I felt very fragile and adrift, and somehow these two incredibly silly and tongue-in-cheek movies (that i love with all my heart) felt like they were outlining the future course of life (everyone i know turning on me, bankruptcy and my…

The aughts are a very bizarre era in Scorsese’s oeuvre that i was in the past very apprehensive about, but have at a wiser age really come to cherish. All of the coke fueled opulence of something like Casino with a new found curiosity in potentials of digital technology (interesting this and the Departed are both largely about technology as well, I don't really have any expanded thoughts but I'm putting a pin down to wander later). The progression from…