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Asteroid City (2023)
Asteroid City (2023)
This, in my opinion, is one of Wes Anderson's best films in recent memory. Despite the fact that I love Wes Anderson, his most recent features in the past decade, besides Isle of Dogs and Moonrise Kingdom, are entertaining, but they can miss that spark that earlier Anderson had, but Asteroid City honestly feels like a solid mix between old and new Wes Anderson. Another thing I greatly appreciate is that this film, unlike some other of Wes Anderson's films, is that this film has an incredibly placed theoretical edge. Wes Anderson managed to craft a beautiful film that senselessly explores many ideas into its runtime, including a writer finding inspiration for his extensive play, an actor figuring out the purpose, his fellow cast and crew performing the show, a group of people under government quarantine, alien life, parenthood, intelligence, human reaction to syatange situations, and many more, in a way, this is Wes Anderson's Synecdoche, New York, not in terms of death, but in the functions and world that people live in, surrounded by a large play, in typically Wes Anderson fashion. I have experiences with high school plays so I adore West's structurally choices he used, they might have been weird at first, but it worked through nonetheless, every character fits their scene and in Twin Peaks fashion, might not serve any purpose to the main story, but they're fun anyway. Like a play, the film may end unceremoniously at times, but what I am left with is an interesting experiment in film that I will be thinking about for a while.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Requiem For A Dream (2001)
I feel sick about watching this movie. I was sick to my stomach. Part of me hated this movie even though I loved it because of it and the performances at hand. It's complicated but here's another 10/10 Darren Aronofsky.
GO TO HELL!
(Black Swan: 10/10 and Mother!: 10/10)
The Shining (1980)
The Shining
Even though it devastates from King's novel, Kubrick's film is brilliantly acted and is a classic masterpiece of horror. The film has a very twisted ending involving Jack in the picture of the July 4th part in 1922 and raises many questions including is Jack a reincarnation of the old caretaker. The twins are creepy and the conversation at the party is one of my favorite film scenes of all time.