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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This is not The Teachers’ Lounge, that’s for sure, even though it’s based on some Swedish novel. It’s some kind of horror film where the villain protagonist wins.
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RoBourne Hood. Much better than the other Robin Hood, just as you think this is just monarchist nonsense, they go all in on the guillotine insurance ethos. The king should have been gutted like a fish, if this was written by Alan Moore.
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This is the purest form of personal film, almost like poetry. The director, writer, lead actor, and all around driver of the whole thing. It never even leaves their perspective.
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A terrorist wants to bomb the UN General Assembly in New York because of Serb snipers in Sarajevo killed his wife and child. But he’s a diplomat from the Republika Srpska! This is a bad action film, and a bad political thriller, rolled into one.
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The meta interpretation about the audience is alluring, considering all the aside glances and the rewind bit, but I prefer a Watsonian interpretation where the father is the most weaksauce human ever lived. A complete wet noodle, as useful as a marzipan dildo.
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Another Jean-Claude Van Damme film with twins, this is becoming an obsession.
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What an incredible time capsule, how topical after 25 years of the real largest terrorist attack in America since Timothy McVeigh. And yet, it’s very by the book.
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This is pure unfiltered euro arthouse, it’s the uncut shit. I wouldn’t get half of it, even if I understood German. And the first-name only dedication to Yasujirō Ozu, François Truffaut, and Andrei Tarkovsky, what a blowhard.
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It’s about time somebody rips off Sicario, it truly is a spiritual successor. There are countless scenes lifted directly, the music is a soundalike, one of the protagonist gets shot in the chest. It’s less morally ambiguous, these are Nazis we are talking about.
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This is so full of different talents, it could have been ruined, like a pair of Levi’s being torn apart by horses. But it’s more like a stagecoach, all the horses are pulling in the same direction, towards the modern upbeat film noir.
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As didactic about climate change as a Bertold Brecht play, but for kids! Pretty upbeat, his memory should be completely erased and the Earth colony would starve after the first big storm.
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I mean, it’s not very different from Looney Tunes: Back in Action, but this is even less focused on the humans. It’s not pure IP like Wreck It Ralph or Ready Player One, just the next rung in the ladder.
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Is this a secular Left Behind film, where Rapture is COVID, but sanded down of any unwoke bits With real actors, why? Why would you do this, Margaret?
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