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Niagara (1953) My avatar is from that movie.
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Amy, the documentary on Amy Winehouse... and WOW, was it ever sad. 
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^^^ Didn’t care for Drive. Really mesmerized by Only God Forgives. The Neon Demon… is somewhere in between.
Another story of the evil fashion industry eating up and spitting out young girls with no particular talent other than their beauty will often come across another tacky cautionary tale of excess, heartless and wasted lives toyed with by jerks who think they're gods.
What worked for me was the story starting as such, then weirdly, and fascinatingly, turning into a Brothers Grimm fairy tale towards the third act. Other than that, Nicolas Winding Refn’s brand of a saturated, hyper-stylized world, that's part Edward Hopper, Bret Easton Ellis, and Guy Bourdin is the real attraction, frankly. I thought his brand of that world was stunning, and sad, and worked so well for Only God Forgives. It sort of works here, but not entirely. Elle Fanning as the new pretty young thing, kind of works; she bares a passing resemblance to Jessica Stem in some scenes… then you see her full body shot— with her small shoulders and slight height, and no way would she get the pass over Abbey Lee, one of her nemesis here. The character of “Gigi”, played by Bella Heathcote seems to be a hilarious take on the Hadid sisters: She’s a current top girl that’s had, and likely will continue, to be cut, nipped and tucked— to the point she proudly professes to be called “the bionic woman”. Another aspect of the film I enjoyed was the wardrobe— ranging from Giles Deacon, Saint Laurent to… Aritzia LOL
Speaking of Easton Ellis, I’d love for Refn to film “Less Than Zero”. His sparse, isolated and lonely aesthetic of city life suits Easton Ellis' writing perfectly. Please do not cast Ryan Gosling in any part, though. Please. (And please hire Hedi as costume designer.)
Another story of the evil fashion industry eating up and spitting out young girls with no particular talent other than their beauty will often come across another tacky cautionary tale of excess, heartless and wasted lives toyed with by jerks who think they're gods.
What worked for me was the story starting as such, then weirdly, and fascinatingly, turning into a Brothers Grimm fairy tale towards the third act. Other than that, Nicolas Winding Refn’s brand of a saturated, hyper-stylized world, that's part Edward Hopper, Bret Easton Ellis, and Guy Bourdin is the real attraction, frankly. I thought his brand of that world was stunning, and sad, and worked so well for Only God Forgives. It sort of works here, but not entirely. Elle Fanning as the new pretty young thing, kind of works; she bares a passing resemblance to Jessica Stem in some scenes… then you see her full body shot— with her small shoulders and slight height, and no way would she get the pass over Abbey Lee, one of her nemesis here. The character of “Gigi”, played by Bella Heathcote seems to be a hilarious take on the Hadid sisters: She’s a current top girl that’s had, and likely will continue, to be cut, nipped and tucked— to the point she proudly professes to be called “the bionic woman”. Another aspect of the film I enjoyed was the wardrobe— ranging from Giles Deacon, Saint Laurent to… Aritzia LOL
Speaking of Easton Ellis, I’d love for Refn to film “Less Than Zero”. His sparse, isolated and lonely aesthetic of city life suits Easton Ellis' writing perfectly. Please do not cast Ryan Gosling in any part, though. Please. (And please hire Hedi as costume designer.)
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Ghostbusters (the new one)
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Son of Saul.
If hell is round the corner, this film depicted it with chilling intimacy and heartbreaking horror. The sometimes first-person perspective of the lead’s everyday going-ons in Auschwitz is too crushing to watch at times: It’s so visceral and surreal at once, like a hellish version of Unreal, Quake and Half-life… I don’t mean to diminish the film’s context with the gaming comparison; just that that’s how horrifying unreal the story of a day in the life of Saul, in the nightmarish role of a sonderkimmando is in Auschwitz is.
My friend’s grandmother never watched any Holocaust films/ docs not because she wanted to forget about the tragedy, but because she lived through it, and had no desire to relive hell anymore. I guess that’s the same reason my grandmother never watched any of the docs of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai… I never had a chance to asked her when she was alive since I was so little— but that’s likely the reason she would give, I’d imagine.
This film would be too much for many, especially more so for those that survived the Holocaust. It’s so unflinching, so unsentimental and brutally brave in its concept. I never felt it was exploitive— just such despair watching this: Human beings can be such ultimate horrible monsters.
If hell is round the corner, this film depicted it with chilling intimacy and heartbreaking horror. The sometimes first-person perspective of the lead’s everyday going-ons in Auschwitz is too crushing to watch at times: It’s so visceral and surreal at once, like a hellish version of Unreal, Quake and Half-life… I don’t mean to diminish the film’s context with the gaming comparison; just that that’s how horrifying unreal the story of a day in the life of Saul, in the nightmarish role of a sonderkimmando is in Auschwitz is.
My friend’s grandmother never watched any Holocaust films/ docs not because she wanted to forget about the tragedy, but because she lived through it, and had no desire to relive hell anymore. I guess that’s the same reason my grandmother never watched any of the docs of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai… I never had a chance to asked her when she was alive since I was so little— but that’s likely the reason she would give, I’d imagine.
This film would be too much for many, especially more so for those that survived the Holocaust. It’s so unflinching, so unsentimental and brutally brave in its concept. I never felt it was exploitive— just such despair watching this: Human beings can be such ultimate horrible monsters.
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