Post #3759029
2026-05-01 07:11 UTC
Amour (2012)
A brutally realistic portrayal of someone in terminal decline, to the point that watching it felt cruelly dehumanizing. I've watched 4 loved ones go through that already. I probably have another 4 to go. I didn't need a 9th. And that's not even getting into the violence at the end.
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@attoparsec@clacks.link 2026-05-02 23:46
Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) Ugh, what a weird mess. The visual style is subtle but distinct, playing with extreme closeups (particularly around messy eating) in a way that was moderately interesting. Some very good acting, and a script that was only occasionally cringeworthy. But the 180 minute runtime definitely wasn't justified, and far too much of that was taken up with gratuitous and deeply-male-gazey sex scenes. Mostly lesbian, with, of course, a male director. Just straight up porn, complete with the inability to go more than 20 seconds without the participants changing to a new (but equally impractical) position.