The prism doesn't allow for any exit, each edge is facing in, the three sides don't allow for resolution, but rather a continual turn inwards and around (they don't call it a love triangle for nothing). Jesse is in the apex of her lust, and she just might stay there forever. This is the best sex scene of the film.
Read MoreQuestions Asked in The Lobster
And yet, The Lobster also reminds us how difficult life is when you’re in love-- it’s nice sharing dreams and future plans with someone, but you also have to share pain, even though it’s so much easier crying alone.
Read MoreGive Me Shelter : A Bigger Splash
The only thing on the island more oppressive than the weather is their lust. Eventually each of them succumb to each other. Every new indiscretion is heralded by the land - a fierce wind, a frenzy of cicadas. The island itself is teeming with some phantom energy, a heat that remains from the long dormant volcano.
Read MoreEverybody Wants Some and Everybody Gets Some
Richard Linklater calls Everybody Wants Some!! the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and the “cousin” to Boyhood —there’s always that low key sexist cousin in the family who you don’t have much in common with, isn’t there? He may as well rename this film Fuckboyhood.
Read MoreRemember Newspapers?
His lapsed Catholicism inspires a brief internal thumb-war between moral duty and theological loyalty and really makes you reflect on how, if you think about it, you may have never met a Catholic who isn’t lapsed.
Read MoreThe Mechanics and Matter of Mad Max: Fury Road
Not once did teachers warn us about forming parasitic relationships with our fake friends and gas-lighting sweethearts. Not once did we think of ourselves as wild, living organisms. Note how I say “living” instead of existing. There is a difference.
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Aidan Jeans pokes fun at the other Wall Street film we didn't need.
Read MoreOn Room, Trauma and the Mess of Love
Room is the horror movie of parental responsibility which forces you to watch both mother and son pay the mental, emotional and physical cost of having been son and mother to each other.
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