Saturday 9 November 2024
(watched, at the theater 📽️)
This joins Don't Worry Darling in being a rather nice episode of Black Mirror in movie format. Except with a Cannes touch to make it artsy and particularly weird. I don't understand how this got Best Screenplay at Cannes, considering how unsatisfying the details of the plot are, but I guess Cannes is more interested in extended metaphors (If you do too much fillers to try to look young, you'll end up looking like a monster, and people will make fun of you.) than in compelling storytelling craft.
Ultimately, I didn't understand the maneuver the movie was trying to make. (To denounce Hollywood obsession with youth and beauty, let's film a lot of young ass shaking.)
This joins Don't Worry Darling in being a rather nice episode of Black Mirror in movie format. Except with a Cannes touch to make it artsy and particularly weird. I don't understand how this got Best Screenplay at Cannes, considering how unsatisfying the details of the plot are, but I guess Cannes is more interested in extended metaphors (If you do too much fillers to try to look young, you'll end up looking like a monster, and people will make fun of you.) than in compelling storytelling craft.
Ultimately, I didn't understand the maneuver the movie was trying to make. (To denounce Hollywood obsession with youth and beauty, let's film a lot of young ass shaking.)
I enjoyed the references to Kubrick.