I’m pissed that this was boring and tedious to watch because it easily could have been entertaining and deeply moving. Annoying shit just pervaded, chief among them the SHEER LENGTH!!!!! It felt like we got a lifetimes worth of depressed ass wet blanket main character stomping and tripping about in a dirty sack being miserable and useless. It just all needed more, a sharper profile. Distinctive characters. It was trying to Terrence mallick, smoothing life into a beautiful wave of…

The östlund we have daheim (complimentary)

(The climax reminded me so extremely of the gorilla performance art scene in the square, but a softer, less dangerous, less coherently critical and incisive version — which is basically a microcosm of the differences between the two films more generally. The thing is though, I don’t think peacock is trying to achieve the same deep, biting satire of modern masculinity, capitalism, art, etc, and it doesn’t actually have to, to be funny. To…