hanuman10356 Reviews

Babylon (I) (2022)

A Tragic Post Mortem To Cinema

[1/10 · 12 March 2023]

I don't know where to begin and neither did this film. It had an unctous quality that numerous showers could not wash off. The positive users and critics reviews seem a cacophonous death knell, not only for cinema, but aesthetics in general. Maybe this is the apex or nadir of post modernism. Where truth, beauty, morality, kindness, empathy, facts, are not just victims of relativism, but are utterly meaningless--dead. I feel Chazelle intended to kill off these ideals with Babylon, so, in a sense, it was a very successful film. Maybe his intentions were as pernicious as the war machine as it grinds the world to dust in this age of Kali and Thanatos.

Jai Ma.

Deep Water (I) (2022)

Relentlessly Dunderheaded

[1/10 · 8 June 2022]

One insipid scene after another. Deep Water is a tale told by an idiot, lacking sound and fury, still signifying nothing. If this steers one person away my job will be done...

The French Dispatch (2021)

Always Wes Anderson

[2/10 · 30 January 2022]

There is always a vacuum of character and emotion in his films. They are always written, directed, acted, and shot in the same manner. To sum it up: relentlessly pretentious quirky and post modern...

The Hand of God (2021)

A lovely portrait of an unusual city

[8/10 · 26 December 2021]

Although I have only an embryonic understanding of Italian, I felt the rhythm and mood of the scenes allowed me to feel the soul of Naples on a cellular level.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Relentlessly Dull

[2/10 · 21 December 2021]

Nothing but dull and I am never bored. I read an excerpt from an Eve Babitz book, Eve's Book, on Play Books, feeling it unnecessary to give this clunky slog my full attention. Possibly good as a soporific...

Dead to Me (2019–2022)

Horrible in too many ways to innumerate

[1/10 · 28 August 2021]

Jaw droppingally horrible. Uneven in tone. Meandering utterly uncompelling plot. Characters that act in a way that no humans have ever acted. All in all not worth half an hour of your life to watch one episode.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

A movie about friendship, high school, music, literature, and mental illness.

[10/10 · 7 October 2012]

Immediately ascends to the pantheon of high school movies, ahead of The Breakfast Club and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I saw it at the Writer's Guild with mostly a sixty-plus audience and they all seemed to love it, so, clearly, this is a movie that transcends generational appeal. In other words, it dealt with universal themes with great dignity and beauty.

The actors were all excellent, especially Ezra Miller as the gay best friend of Charlie. He was alternately glib and poignant without seeming the creation of an eloquent writer.

The score was a great eclectic mix of the eighties with brilliant usage of Bowie's Heroes and The Smiths Asleep.