Artist: I made this because I want you to sympathize with the suffering of christ
Fandoms: His blood is sexy! Next time do more tiger mauling though that’s the coolest part.
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Artists don’t control the message and people don’t really need art to remind them of the horrors of war if they are willing to learn about them in the first place.
What films do a good job of is making things we may have heard of feel like they fit in a coherent narrative.
So what narrative does one like? Kinda depends on what I’m dealing with tbh. No one is getting anywhere from the same place as anyone else really.
hm, what the images from hiroshima and nagasaki and the real life horror of the bomb there couldnt do, a film did it at least for some time;
After seeing the film, Ronald Reagan wrote that the film had been very effective and left him depressed and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a “nuclear war”
But I am not talking about whether or not other people have permission to make art they want. I have no power over any aspect of that, never have, and likely never will. I am under no illusion that I matter or that my needs or opinions will ever be those considered when art is being made this is why I make it for myself tbh. Usually… it’s not for me, I’m just trying to understand it because I feel like I have to for one reason or another or it makes the best compromise with others. Most media is not made with me in mind and that’s ok as most people are also not me.
I am saying this or that is what I, personally, want to consume for entertainment as I estimate is needed based on my personal experience.
yep, thats basically it; nearly every protagonist in the film is broken or dies because of it. I know, my answer isnt as complex as it could(?) be, but why repeat what others already said here and elsewhere;
Civil War seems like the kind of movie people will mostly talk about for all the wrong reasons, and without seeing it first. It isn’t what those people will think it is. It’s something better, more timely, and more thrilling — a thoroughly engaging war drama that’s more about people than about politics.
But at the heart of this exquisite exploration of battle are the characters. Dunst’s Lee doesn’t say much. She stares and builds walls around her. She’s broken in ways we don’t see, and Dunst brings that to the surface.
The film’s primary fault is that Garland trusts his audience too much…his vagueness can’t be seen as something horrible, so much as being the very specific thing that he isn’t interested in talking about. For viewers who are plugged in, this is a clear anti-populist film that pushes back against the American right. But Garland’s doesn’t push far enough.
I agree mostly with both reviews in one way or another.
I’ll absolutely cue Other People up, was unaware of it. Jesse Plemons was so good in Fargo that I discarded the Meth Damon nickname and appreciated him for being a monumental talent.
I’ve had a girl crush on co-star Kirsten Dunst since her Vampire debut. My recommendation is On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Covid killed a lot of great things - this astonishingly dark and funny tv series didn’t survive the pox either.
"The left and right have been changing power for decades, but people’s lives don’t change. People in poverty traps stay in poverty traps. So not surprisingly they start to get angry and frustrated,” explains Garland
