the summer i turned pretty meets grizzly man
Lot to be said in favor of movies that don’t go full white savior (successfully liberating ‘helpless’ POC) but give white people a vision of what being an ally could be (noncooperation with feds + being hot)
Anthony Hopkins and the mountains doing a lot here
A Freudian case study which is at times meandering and at times mesmerizing feels so distinctly like a relic of early cinema's identity crisis: are movies just visual novels, extended television episodes, or something else all-together?
While watching, I became convinced - without extrinsic evidence - that this was an adaptation of a novel (just checked - it is!) The most fascinating aspects of the movie are the ways in which it fails at being a novel.
Without a first-person…
expected all the teeth..pleasantly surprised by all the tongue
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But also
The metaphysics of vampire memory showcasing how lived experience coagulates into inherited trauma
An image of enduring beauty in the south
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears” - Frederick Douglass, Narratives in the Life of a Slave
