Dear Lars,
Hello again incel, I hope this letter finds you in below average health. Your self congratulatory egotism, your obsession with gratuitous depravity, and quite frankly your ineptitude at making at the very least a coherent film still amazes me. I’m not sure how you managed to make a film about a serial killer boring, but congratulations nonetheless. Clearly you think filming in a shaky mockumentary style makes you avant-garde and subversive, but once again you were mistaken. I’m…
I’m sure I wrote a good review of this movie in a different timeline.
Maybe I got into a car accident, head on collision, slammed my head into the steering wheel. I went into a coma, woke up 4 years later, ate through a straw for a month, re-learned to read and write, became incredibly proficient as a writer, fell in love with my nurse (who’s probably also a model), then rediscovered my love of cinema after scrolling through TV…
“When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”-
-Exodus 20:18
How does one even begin to write about Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ten episode miniseries? To adequately and appropriately discuss the series would be an undertaking fit for a…
This is not at all what I expected from the final episode of the series, and yet it worked so well...
9.0 / 10
Yes David, drink that mountain water king!
Something about Minari feels so humble, unassuming, everything about it feels overwhelmingly genuine and pure. Roaming shots of green crops serenade the viewer with serene imagery of possibility and fertility, even the frames enclosed within the compact home feel immensely comfortable, even if that doesn’t necessarily fit with the narrative. This film just feels so human, the performances, the score, the cinematography, they all contribute to this immense feeling of empathy that washes…
