Iman as always your writing is so smart and leaves me with so much to think on/adds so much to an understanding of the work! I left the theater with about a million thoughts and no clear sense of my 'feeling' of the film though on reflection I have to concede that it did provoke me and I was very engaged 🤭 heavy agree on the ways the film is a "refutation of a viewer’s impulse to create stabilized meaning" and how hard that can be to sit with in a mainstream movie. i will be rewatching with this review at the forefront of my mind ☝🏾
thank you so kindly as ever mariam always deeply appreciative of your generous and close reads :') i think there is a knee jerk reaction to the central "drama" (not the response from people impacted by its real world manifestations of course) but it's like the film is engaging with it! you just have to discern the degree to which you think it's successful! i want to rewatch as well so please share any new impressions when you do!
"[I]t is intentionally a film of surfaces" !! The smartest thing I have and will read about this movie; my viewing is so enriched by this piece.
you are too kind :’) thank you very much rebecca!
Iman as always your writing is so smart and leaves me with so much to think on/adds so much to an understanding of the work! I left the theater with about a million thoughts and no clear sense of my 'feeling' of the film though on reflection I have to concede that it did provoke me and I was very engaged 🤭 heavy agree on the ways the film is a "refutation of a viewer’s impulse to create stabilized meaning" and how hard that can be to sit with in a mainstream movie. i will be rewatching with this review at the forefront of my mind ☝🏾
thank you so kindly as ever mariam always deeply appreciative of your generous and close reads :') i think there is a knee jerk reaction to the central "drama" (not the response from people impacted by its real world manifestations of course) but it's like the film is engaging with it! you just have to discern the degree to which you think it's successful! i want to rewatch as well so please share any new impressions when you do!