SXSW London #7
Mike Flanagan, who intro'd this tonight alongside Hiddleston and Ejiofor, said that despite being a Flanagan/King t, this was not a horror.
I respectfully disagree as that first act was the most existentially stressful depiction of the end of the world I've seen in a while, from the slow increase of natural disasters to the almost casual acceptance of the people to all the other weird shit going on and a jump scare involving street lighting that…
SXSW London #6
Brilliant dramatisation of what happens when a highly competent and super empathetic person gets everything slowly put on her shoulders. A beautifully human (and definitely triggering, for anyone working in an understaffed hospital) drama that shows the mutitudes in everyone, reminds us that we're all going through something and how the snowball effect of stress can break even the most efficient person. I sobbed.
A mixed Bong bag but hard to argue against the performances, not least of all the double R-Patz with some of the best 'dual' person interaction in the same shot that i think I've ever seen?
A rallying cry for learning to love yourself (all parts of you), to know your worth, to not take any shit and to let go of the infinite number of things you can trick yourself into thinking you need to feel guilty about. It got me.
Also those creepers are just space Okjas right?
It'd be reductive to call this Pam Anderson's The Wrestler (2009) but it certainly feels modelled after that and would make for a fascinating double bill.
I dug this. Pam is indeed a revelation, every character feels thoroughly lived in and contrary to most it seems, I didn't mind the way it was shot (how I've missed actual film grain). It's a bit empty but it still felt like a slice of life in a purely cinematic fashion, and not…
