thinking about Madeline Ferguson in Twin Peaks…

somehow completely forgot the plot of this from last time i saw it (2019 maybe?) except for a few key moments including the wave-crashing kiss, the dolly zooms, and the nun. i was more with the plot this time because of watching it in a theater, but i kept getting distracted by the parallels between this film and all the films inspired by it. so much of Kim Novak’s performance reminds me of…

from Natalie’s twitter (1:44pm 10/20/23 from Earth):

For the record, God video makes me cry too. I’ll be performing and I’ll turn around and crack open like an egg when I see it, especially the end. Adam Curtis has a way of weaving together all the cognitive dissonances of our time into beautiful tapestries. Thank you for watching.

this video is beautiful, but seeing it with her live performance back in March is an experience that will live with me…

the rare twist that makes a movie worse…

who does this film want us to like? why are we asked halfway though to change our sympathies from the poor to the rich (and certainly not to the middle class) in a film that poses as a sociological exercise? why is gen z aesthetic written across a film set in 2006? and why is the score… like that?

these questions writhed around in my brain as the film dragged to its…