I can’t recommend watching the film while listening to this underneath it enough.

watching bullying on screen always fucks me up, but i really enjoyed seeing a teenager perfectly depict the job parents have done on their children, leading them to believe that it's okay to be antagonistic toward girls who're asking for capitalism to be destroyed and to be allowed to listen to kim deal in peace. hope the algorithm doesn't ever find this.
Kurosawa's method of depicting maladies that plague the modern world has developed in a multitude of ways since the first murder committed in The Guard from Underground up until the kitchen scene in Chime. The control of the frame, which has always felt second nature for Kurosawa, has been the hallmark of his command of form. Situating the viewer's hyper-attention to a room, computer screen, or window, only to abruptly obliterate the audience's fixation with a gentle cut to a…