@Myana You're the first person I've heard from who said they did! (Not that I take what I've heard seriously--mostly they were buttheads on the birb) ;)
I've got it narrowed to BLOOD QUANTUM and THE OLD WAYS... 🤔

@Apocryphiliac The movie wasn't as political as I'd hoped (or if it was, it flew over my head). But I thought it was a solid zombie movie.

@Myana If nothing else, it has a really cool poster 😊

@MLClark :D

The one I've seen before is the one you're talking about, I suspect. :)

Each of these has some significance to things I've been thinking about from discussions here, (not that I expect anyone else to remember these discussions took place). ;)

@Apocryphiliac I hear you on resonant re-watches! I recently thought of that film when watching Paul Schrader's The Card Counter, which also has a powerful sense of inevitability to it, leading to a closing scene at a prison in which all hope of something else somehow emerging from all the loss and carnage has now been pinned. It's something more than an ambivalent ending, but *far* less than full transformation and healing. I love the strange liminality of that final note in both of them.

@MLClark oh btw, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID about destroyed me. 😆 Seriously amazing film.

@Apocryphiliac Right?! There's something rare and precious about taking the fantastical as seriously as a child would -- meaning, with every bit as much peril as everything else in their too-often fragile and violence-haunted worlds. Glad you "enjoyed" it -- for very particular uses of the word "enjoyed"! 😬

@MLClark I did enjoy it, a lot. I already posted about this, but I was so impressed and surprised by how they approached the idea of supernatural elements.... I am totally unaware of any discourse surrounding the film (I purposely avoid any press or foreknowledge of movies if possible) but I'm guessing many remarked on the Del Toro influences... Which I'm sure is valid, but this film has a much more interesting way of blurring the boundaries of real/unreal... Really amazed by it.

@Apocryphiliac We have such an impoverished vocabulary for these things, don't we? So we usually just slap the most familiar Western creator onto promos and call it a day. But I've watched my fair share of Spanish, South-, Southeast-, and East Asian films with spiritual elements, so that slipstream realism was super familiar. Hopefully we'll get better at talking about the range of "realisms" in our world soon! 🤞

@MLClark Oh for sure. Interested then, in your opinion on this point: did you take it as that the "blurred line" was important to distinguish, in metaphysical terms.. I don't want to reduce the beauty of the way they played it in that way... I think all elements, "natural" and "other" are supposed to co-exist here, without a need for judgement. People will get caught up in a debate much of the time on "what happened" but I feel like that is a very counterproductive approach here. 🤔 🤷‍♂️

@Apocryphiliac Oddly enough, it reminded me of Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a Thai-Buddhist meditation on a dying man whose journey into his past lives and estranged elements of this life all help to ready him for the next. In both films, for me, what's tangibly verifiable matters far less than the momentum either created or hindered by how we perceive ourselves and the world. The realness of events lies in how they move us: no more or less. 🙃

@MLClark AWW. I have been meaning to watch that one!!! Ever since I saw his MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON... wow I can't believe the internet has brought someone to me that I can talk about this stuff with. LOL

@Apocryphiliac 🤣 I am VERY BEHIND myself, because he has a movie SET IN FREAKING COLOMBIA and I still haven't seen it yet. 🤦‍♀️ With Tilda Swinton, too! BONKERS. CAN'T WAIT. 😂 Oh man. But also, agreed! So amped by the synchronicity in interests. Yay for #CoSo yet again! 🙏

@MLClark Yeah, I just noticed that! I mean, that it had Tilda (who is *incredible!*--my main reason for wanting to watch the movie with her and Ezra Miller ;)) There's so much great stuff out there... imo 😋

Yay for CoSo! #CoSoLove 😁

P.S., my best moment on the birb was when Tilda replied to one of my tweets... *squeals with joy* 😆

@Apocryphiliac Okay, but now I have to go watch a movie, and not just talk about them. ;) Happy viewing, whichever one you pick!

@MLClark Thanks. Enjoy, too. :)

@MLClark and to your point, Yessss. Totally dead on.

The other thing that really moved me was how clearly the horrors of the "real" were portrayed so much more starkly than the "unreal" while never stepping out of the film's "world"--the established style... It was so pointed, so fluid and sure in the portrayal... The actors brought a ton of that into it... (the child cast was incredible!) and the direction ofc... Lopez is amazing. I'm really blown away by it.