How much time/money was spent on the Michel Dongry short? That was great.
It was, but it completely horrified me! That part where the view pans up and you get a Simpsons-esque view of between the floors, and it just looks like flesh and bone...ugh. Such a little detail but important. The whole film seems to be about flesh in one way or another, pretty obvious given it’s about capitalism. The most popular tv show is about people being subjected to horrific physical abuse, the Worryfree system is buying whole families of people to farm out for labour, Detroit’s piece involves her exposing her body while the audience injure and stain it. The equisapiens are designed to improve on the inherent weakness of human flesh etc.
I’m going to feel really silly if I get this on Blu-ray and find out that’s not what it was meant to be at all!
Other things I liked:- obvious but still funny shot of Lift with both republicans and democrats, just to rub it in- the worryfree ads increase in scale and frequency to where they’re telling people to sign their whole families up. Maybe children are better at putting together high end electronics? It reminded me of that black mirror episode about the bike farms where families are separated.- lift says worryfree isn’t slavery because there’s no coercion or violence but cassius’s uncle is considering signing up in desperation he’s going to be made homeless and his diabetes is playing up. - the cribs parody with the dead-eyed workers was great and reminded me of those creepy fake amazon worker twitter accounts- whole film looked amazing
Anyway this comes out this week in the UK I think?
― gyac, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:00 (five years ago) link
Looks like it. Kermode loved it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQkloGDZjSY
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 December 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
Liked this a lot.
Kermode's review is so plodding, drawn-out, obvious and lifeless. Was he always like this?
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 9 December 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
Blindspotting is the fleshed out sociopolitical realism that STBY veers into in between the heavily stylized genre stuff
Really? Including the magical-realist ending of rapping at a killer cop while you're holding a gun on him?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Well not that part lol.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
I was too charitable to Blindspotting, which no one will remember... it is milquetoast in comparison to STBY, which remains a mess, but a memorable one, and it hits highs that Blindspotting never does.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
"I'm a Virgo" out on Prime today - looks weird!
― na (NA), Friday, 23 June 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyKhFwEo7c
Watched the first episode. The attention to detail in the little burger boxes, Cootie's stitched-together clothes, the innocent, Ted-Theodore-Logan way he talks, it's all great. The only thing giving me pause is that I'm sure something terrible is going to happen and I don't want it to.
― trishyb, Sunday, 25 June 2023 15:06 (ten months ago) link
Weird, I was just watching Carmen Ejogo in True Detective (s3) so looked her up seeing her in this trailer - had no idea she was British and previously married to Tricky!
― kinder, Sunday, 25 June 2023 15:23 (ten months ago) link
Just got Prime video, so going back to a bunch of stuff I missed. I loved Sorry to Bother You and I loved I'm a Virgo. I understand most of the criticisms leveled at Riley's work - weird tonal changes, threads underdeveloped, world-building isn't cohesive - but that messiness gives it such character. Can't really explain why his style resonates with me so much, while I've offered the same criticisms to other movies or TV shows. Even though the show felt pretty conclusive, he wants to do a season 2 and I hope he gets it
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:11 (one week ago) link
I got smokes at Both Sides Convenience yesterday and thought of this thread … they’ve fixed it up a lot since the movie was made
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:41 (one week ago) link