El Chupacabra
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In the Jeffrey Epstein world we live in I don't know how preposterous that You Were Never Really Here story was!
You know, I will finish Under The Silver Lake, and I was enjoying it for the most part, but a couple of things: I am not a hard core animal rights guy at all, but was honestly a little troubled by the depictions/images -- however brief or even cartoon-ish -- of some of the animal things, which may have been part of the point, but it affected me more than, say, similar images I've seen in something like Altered States. Could just be my mood.
What also could just be my mood was that on more than one occasion I also caught myself thinking that it was a very white guy movie and wondered if it really needed to be made. And I will watch these types of weird stoner, white guy movies all the time without really thinking that, so I'm not sure why that stood out to me in this particular film.
I think you compared it to Inherent Vice, and I definitely see that and its homages to a ton of other movies that I like (Juliette Lewis could def be a spiritual relative of one of Marlowe's neighbor ladies in Long Goodbye); I'm not saying it shouldn't have been made, it is clearly well crafted and I am enjoying it, but those things stood out and I caught myself reflecting on those two things.
Anyway, that's all more about me than the quality of the movie, it's mostly a fun ride.
Edit to add - I don't know where I came up with Juliette Lewis in this? I guess the topless bird lady just reminded me of her? What a weird pull from my memory -- I never even think about Juliette Lewis, but I had it in my mind that she was in this and then when I saw the topless bird lady I just instinctively made her Juliette Lewis. Weird.
You know, I will finish Under The Silver Lake, and I was enjoying it for the most part, but a couple of things: I am not a hard core animal rights guy at all, but was honestly a little troubled by the depictions/images -- however brief or even cartoon-ish -- of some of the animal things, which may have been part of the point, but it affected me more than, say, similar images I've seen in something like Altered States. Could just be my mood.
What also could just be my mood was that on more than one occasion I also caught myself thinking that it was a very white guy movie and wondered if it really needed to be made. And I will watch these types of weird stoner, white guy movies all the time without really thinking that, so I'm not sure why that stood out to me in this particular film.
I think you compared it to Inherent Vice, and I definitely see that and its homages to a ton of other movies that I like (Juliette Lewis could def be a spiritual relative of one of Marlowe's neighbor ladies in Long Goodbye); I'm not saying it shouldn't have been made, it is clearly well crafted and I am enjoying it, but those things stood out and I caught myself reflecting on those two things.
Anyway, that's all more about me than the quality of the movie, it's mostly a fun ride.
Edit to add - I don't know where I came up with Juliette Lewis in this? I guess the topless bird lady just reminded me of her? What a weird pull from my memory -- I never even think about Juliette Lewis, but I had it in my mind that she was in this and then when I saw the topless bird lady I just instinctively made her Juliette Lewis. Weird.
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