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Children of Men is still one of my favorite films of the twenty-first century. The King Crimson montage is amazing.
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I agree. It's quite visceral film-making, at least to me seems a far cry from that Danny Boyle-esque "look at me" directorial style used in Gravity.
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Also been ages since I've seen it, but I remember Y Tu Mama Tambien being a charming coming of age film.
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yeah, i liked it too.
yeah i saw it the year it came out i think? the new one is roma, it's top of the 2018 RYM and metacritic charts and one of the favourites for best picture etc, not that i put any stock in that but yeah it's been ultra acclaimed so far. i assume a luddite like yourself wouldn't touch netflix with a ten foot pole, but it's out on there.
yeah i saw it the year it came out i think? the new one is roma, it's top of the 2018 RYM and metacritic charts and one of the favourites for best picture etc, not that i put any stock in that but yeah it's been ultra acclaimed so far. i assume a luddite like yourself wouldn't touch netflix with a ten foot pole, but it's out on there.
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wait... you mean you have electricity?
What do you think powers his VCR player?
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i love it but i could totally imagine finding that movie boring as fuck if i wasn't in the right mood first time around.
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In anticipation of The Favourite being released soon, I checked out Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer the other day. I liked the premise and it was definitely unsettling but overall I prefer The Lobster. It didn't make sense to me why the characters talk in such stiff unnatural ways, particularly Farrell. The technique worked in The Lobster because it fitted with the theme of highlighting the shallowness and superficiality of human relationships and interactions, but I'm not sure what it added here particularly given it was not used consistently across all characters (ie Kidman's acting is quite natural). I also found Farrell's behaviour to be internally inconsistent as he reacts to the events affecting him. Sometimes he's the rational scientist, sometimes he's the frantic loving father, sometimes he's fearful and superstitious, sometimes he's angry and juvenile. I get that he's emotionally stunted, but I thought there was little rhyme or reason to his evolution/devolution as a character.
