Ephemera of Vision

This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.

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  • Eraserhead

    What. What? What! What‽ what, what. WHAT¡ WhAaaaaaT¿ Whattttttt⸮ Who? How? Why?

  • The Brutalist

    That’s a brutal runtime, but fitting for an epic story. Ironic how a film about brutalism is so stylish. Kinda tone deaf to make a big deal of making aliyah in this conjecture, they should have used AI to change that instead.

  • Don't Breathe 2

    They pull a Terminator 2 and the bad guy is a good guy now. But it’s really about a little kid’s FAMILY, the biological murderous deadbeats, and the kind killer that raised the kid. After some twists and turns towards the end, she goes self-made orphan and chooses the old SEAL Team 6.

  • Silent Night

    It’s a John Woo film, everything is extremely intense. Intense emotional scenes, intense training montages, then an intense John Wick ripoff. How the mighty have fallen.

  • Boy Kills World

    The visual style is extremely well-troden, it has been seen over and over and over again, and they even quote tastefully from the masters. But a story based on brotherly love, two children raised together bonding for life? That’s basically unheard of, it’s fresh just for that fact.

  • When Harry Met Sally...

    This is the quintessential romcom, written by Nora Ephron even. Harry is such a jerk for so long, I don’t see what Sally sees in him. That’s the hardest thing to suspend disbelief over.

  • Father of the Bride

    It’s not THAT funny, but what can you expect from a goofy Disney cash in on those comedian people they have in storage, with every single bit of edge sanded down to nubbins.

  • The Presence

    This is too straightforward for Soderbergh, there’s no twist, no nothing. Feels just like The Whale, particularly the ending. His least good film since Haywire

  • The Report

    A Senate-based Three Days of the Condor released post-Snowden, in the Trump years. Delusional insanity, trust the process? The slimeballs hint at but never fucking say the name Gina Haspel!

  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

    The Cruiser does some shitty James Bond ripoff, with bad copies of other action films: The Matrix Reloaded freeway chase, The Bourne Legacy motorcycle chase, and The Man Who Knew Too Much opera assassination. Then they have the pointless legacy cameo: “should you choose to accept it”, “this message will self destruct in X seconds”.

  • Death Wish II

    Vigilantism comes to the streets of LA. This is much less downright fascist, it’s less ideological, most plot decisions are done for Doylist reasons.

  • Green Knight

    This is very beautifully shot and acted, but there’s an overall weirdness, it’s extremely thematic, not a straightforward story. Some enormous amounts of themes stuck in there.

  • 28 Days Later

    This is much lower budget and esoteric than I remembered. Some of the images are simply timeless, like trashed and empty London, the zombie on a leash, or the Christmas lights on the apartment.

  • Barbarian

    Oof, this is filled with twists, but it’s actually very conventional. It has themes, but they do not really gel with the movie itself until the last 30 minutes or so.

  • Machete Kills

    Now this is even more silly, if that could be possible. Less politically charged, absolutely ridiculous with a sci-fi vibe this time. Lady Gaga kills it as the Mission: Impossible assassin with perfect latex masks.


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