Killing Them Softly
This is a film a grown up Tarantino would make. A more mature Quentin who would have been bored by now for childish violent imagery while still retaining the quasi-comic book feeling of a parallel universe that exists in the underbelly of our everyday society. A more mature version of Tarantino would be overtly
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Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies frankly surprised me. And it’s my fault for not understanding who the filmmaker was to begin with. If I had known I would have been more acquainted with the guerrilla cinematography which provides a more sophisticated gonzo portrait of the intimate spacing between people’s friendships and relationships. I also would not have
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The Master
In following from last week’s Short Term 12 review, whereby there was a focus on the fact that broken individuals exist because of improper educational nutrition, The Master concerns itself with a passive grandiose identity if not megalomaniac who believes he can rid the world of evil, starting with a broken soul by the
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Good Morning Vietnam
War. What is it good for? The rhetorical question is stereotypically created when a film concerns itself with the Vietnam conflict which escalated into a war. Yet with Good Morning Vietnam we see not a guilt complex that holds the hand of the stereotype which seeks in its effort to humanize people mutilating themselves while
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Short Term 12 Years
Short Term 12 illustrates the importance in the investment of the future of society’s well-being. Children are 20% of the population yet 100% of the future. But why should anyone care how the future ends up? Why does it matter to leave the world in a better place than how it was given to us?
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The Double
It has become a law of nature to follow Jesse Eisenberg’s projects. And The Double simply confirms it. While the setting veers too much into Brazil dystopic hysteria, simply with a dash of Fight Club thrown into the bowl before all the ingredients are mixed, there still is an intricate blend at work here.
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