(how i’m feeling post election)
the sound, pacing, & flat affect w/ actors really makes you want to crawl back into your teenage angst & marinate in it.
Bresson forgets to intersect with race & gender with this one but maybe that’s the point?—Wealthy teenage boys are still prone to wanting to die…?
the french do nihilism so well
do we still have sympathy for the man prison?— no.
BUT WAIT, let’s make a movie about the queer man prison—also no.
Something about this fell short in trying to convey the struggles that gay men face in navigating the world. A frustrating watch.
Loved some of the surrealist scenes, more Holy Mountain-esque sequences would’ve been great.
Heavy on the symbolism but ultimately doing gay men a disservice
