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The Zone of Interest 2023
Nazi leaders, intent on surviving criminal prosecution, repeatedly attested that they were unaware of the gravity of their actions and were "just following orders." The tendency to take this at face value, manifesting in widespread insistence that Nazi leaders were completely ordinary individuals (they went to work, read to their kids, and seemingly didn't have much of an ideology), is extremely disappointing. Those that had the Holocaust enacted against them actually were ordinary individuals, as were the people that tried…
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Buffalo '66 1998
this movie keeps on haunting me because people are so suffocating in their love for it. it's a piece of shit. the worst defense i've seen of buffalo '66 is "it's good because it's very revealing of gallo's mental state." you are saying that a movie that romanticizes the abuse of a teenage girl & reduces her to nothing but a device for the protagonist's redemption is good because it reveals that the director is a lonely narcissist. incredible insight. i'm…