My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Vinyl.
Scorsese's scriptwriters obviously think that the only reason Tolstoy (an artillery commander of ex-serf soldiers during a siege of Sebastopol) and Chekhov (a doctor in Sakhalin penal colony) did not use these words is because they were not sufficiently familiar with them. The uninhibited use of f-word to express virtually everything except record industry jargon replaced quality writing in a modern TV. This is a boring vanity project bankrolled by Jagger to force his numerous offspring to do something useful.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Anomalisa.
A typical Kaufman film--a minute exposition of the inner life of egocentric personage eliciting no sympathy or emotion from the audience.
His previous, a much more ambitious exercise in the genre, "Synechdoche" compared with a very similar disquisition on a nature of time "A Curious Story of Benjamin Button", also suffered from the same inimical defect--his protagonist was not a wee bit likable or particularly interesting, or even intriguing (such, e.g. as Bride and Bill in Tarantino's masterpiece). This movie is a fair subject of discussion in a philosophy or film class and interesting to watch, but in the end a dry construct of a spotless--I do not mean it as a compliment--mind.
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