I mean, he was one of the great directors of the modern era, so one would have thought his death would have been a little bit more widely discussed. I heard about it from a Criterion Closet video with Christoph Waltz. So, thank you Christoph.
I went to see an exhibition today. The theme was technology’s affect on people. Of course, the times being what they are, there was a lot of allusions to AIs. Well, that’s just myopic. I’m 48. That’s old for much of the history of humanity. That is enabled by technology. I can see, because I have glasses. That’s enabled by technology. I’m overweight, because technology allows us to have such an easy access to food.
Will AI have such a profound affect on humanity? Maybe some day, but it isn’t now.
This is a difficult one.
Am I reviewing it? Kind of but also the movie is mostly interesting because of things we are not seeing on the screen.
Yes, the worst excuse to recommend movies is back.
It’s been a while (almost a year and a half) since I last wrote anything in this series but that’s just because you don’t often see good films in the horror comedy genre. Sure, I’ve seen four Toxic Avenger movies, a seemingly deliberately bad Finnish movie called Bunny the Killer Thing (being purposefully bad does not make for a good movie), Two Thousand Maniacs! and so forth. On the other hand, there are some I might want to talk about, like Heart-Eyes, The Ugly Stepsister, Deadstream, Deathgasm, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Slumber Party Massacre… We’ll see. Maybe this series gets another (third) lease on life?
The Dishonored series was made for me. The people behind it might not have known it at the time but they still tried. So, every couple of years I replay those games.
With Melania and Iron Lung specifically, everyone is suddenly an expert.
My way being… weird. It’s not about what I think is the best or what I think is my favorite, but what win would be most beneficial culturally. You’re smart, you’ll figure it out as we go.
This is the kind of movie that will haunt you, but for very different reasons to most such movies. Gladly, I did know what I was getting myself into.