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This movie kind of absolutely shattered my mind and also why didn’t anyone tell me it was so funny?!! It also read me just a little too well, I’d shave off 20mins towards the latter half but also there’s just so much explosive creative storytelling going on here that I felt evened it out- WOW

The premise was so good. The trailer!!! I really really really wanted to love this. Alas — there were some funny moments

I don’t know what to tell you this movie 1000% lives up to the hype, those shots in IMAX 70mm were INSANE, good God🤯 equally terrified and couldn’t look away the ppl were sexxxyyyy😭 and the jokes when you least expected it were awesome too😂✨

Every idea super cool and gave me Okja cute awesomeness, and yet - everything just felt like it could have been much tighter. More exposition than necessary on why they are in space, felt episodic and sequential bringing up the idea of a poly couple and yet never going places with it - lots of starts and never wrapping things up, every new idea cool, just never fully executed— ending longer than we needed

NONETHELESS, I think anyone who creates their magnum opus/ something that good already deserves at minimum 2 projects afterwards that can be mid to bad with 0 questions, the artist must keep on keepin on to get to their next best work!

Hot (and gay)— where are more movies like this again??🥺

A mastery of the Rashomon structure, we really be going through life like this, each on our own plane of logic, and of course the double entendre ending was bananas.

However - (and this I it is just a personal taste thing being frustrated with slower/slice of life films, hence not docking points for this as I’m aware this film is specifically trying to emphasize what each of these people’s reality feels like)— Still, I thought the pacing of information dispersed *within* most of the scenes was slower than it needed to be, and got redundant several times trying to have some characters re-emphasize their thoughts time and time again. I could totally just be a Westernized, fast-moving person too - lol the irony, but it felt slower than it needed to be.

Second, I got really frustrated on a granular level of writing for the scene work activity - unless what they did in each scene was consequential to the main plot and how it would show different angles to the same situation (I.e. watching a specific show on TV, playing the trumpet, these specific actions), a lot of the activity within external scenes felt so unmotivated and fluffy while really it would just be a boring talking scene:( Example 1: the kids just hitting instruments in the music room randomly while talking —> could they have had a more motivated action to do, like assigned to reorganize two different shelves, or find a specific instrument that the principal is bringing back into her life now that her life has gone sour which still lands later? Example 2: the drunk father coming home from a night out still drinking that Hiro meets, and randomly waters his garden —> could we have scene an action he chooses to do to identify his hyper-obsession with masculinity more again, like working on some carpentry project, fixing a motorcycle— I get this reads hella cliche so I can sit down, but it would have woven the storyline into how that action reinforces what he expects of his son, which his son is not interested in - 

AGAIN though, I didn’t dock my review for these thoughts because I’m simultaneously aware Hiro is a smart director, and these thoughts I’m having only further reinforce his overall thesis that we each have our own perspective. Beyond the difference in my taste story-wise to clarify everything, very Western, he could have also been showing the mundane in between we do too that isn’t “crafted” so hard, like me being annoyed the father was only watering the garden doesn’t make sense if we consider the director intends to show the father just doing something normal too/ “un-gendered”, while I now demand to put this characters in boxes. 

I SEE BOTH SIDES, film was genius

Once again, this film proves it should remain in my top 4. And this was made on an indie budget?!!! Ending gets me every time. Max richter also has no business tearing my heart out with the score but you go King. Sound designer must’ve worked on Dune too lol - Bradford young to me, you won the nom for cinematography that year. Denis I am in love with u

Ok yeah no I get it that went OFF

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Don’t know why I just got to watching this years later but my GOD have I missed Lucas Hedges on screen!!🤯 how he went from the mannerisms and believability of a conflicted 18yr old unsure of himself to a grounded, mature, self-assured version of his character who carried himself ages beyond with barely even a difference with his haircut… NEED HIM BACK. Also the structure of the film diverted my expectations at several corners, making what could have been a straight forward and boring storyline multi-layered in a way that held my attention throughout:)

Everyone made their mula again😂 seems like it was made to satisfy people craving to see the movie again with different characters/ to talk more angles on how almost all systems are flawed (Totalitarianism vs Communism vs Capitalism and etc). I thought the beginning was promising and then the latter half onward seemed more convoluted than necessary structure-wise, but they wrapped things up all the way at the end I guess!

Yikes! In a good way! Extremely ambitious film, not my normal come up of tea with the whole horror thing, but I looked away when I needed to to follow the story - I give a 4 also because it’s just so out of the box world building wise, although it does remind me somewhat of Denis Villenuevem’s 2007 short film, “Next Floor”!

Holy smokes, was pleasantly confused at first then 🤯🤯bravo

I had low expectations going in as I’m not usually a big bio film type person, but this kept my attention most of the time so yay

Denis is my fave director, and this is the only of film of his I hadn’t watched yet after years debating where I should — the ending WAS incredibly intense… but I must it the pacing was sooo slow building up to it🫠 stunning cinematography tho still love you King🩶

Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.

Watched on Sunday November 3, 2024.

Wow. Having a masterpiece like this screening at the same time as Mega…(you know what) is wild - knocking off half a star because although I was too chicken to watch what happens “after 3months” (trying not to spoil) I got the recap and the ending didn’t sound as taut as the rest of what was otherwise a perfect script with phenomenal, clean, simple yet so weighted directing - the storyline’s clear trajectory lead me to believe it would land more cohesively but alas- THAT ALL BEING SAID, MY GOD what a mind-blowingly great and striking combination of cinematography, performances, compositional shots, directing so clear, inventive and intentional down to the simple yet so well done production design that made us believe this world- at times I felt like we were watching a commercial advertising how plastic and superficial our society’s become towards age and beauty standards. The scripts births endless conversations with ourselves, our relationship to time, our body, self love, communication- it feels like a time capsule for both these actresses to look back at while working in an industry that so easily consumes and spits people out. This is a serious treat, I can’t wait to see what this director and writer do next!

I really tried to comprehend any aspect of this at all because it’s literally Coppola and so I tried to convince myself that maybe I could enjoy it if I imagined it was a comedy but it was just too painstaking to try to hold on had to walk out 2/3s of the way through 😭 still go watch to indie cinema/ auteur stories tho!!!

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Movie of the year and I’m not even joking

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This movie was so beautifully directed and written and also so much sadder than I expected - bravo!

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Holy shit- Best film of the year. Story, directing, camera, acting, THE SOUNDTRACK. Most refreshing movie I’ve seen since… Past Lives, no pun intended 😭

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