Currently trying to decide what to stream tonight. π€ π€ π€
@Apocryphiliac HAH! One of those films is NOT like the others. π Have fun, whichever you choose!
@MLClark oh btw, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID about destroyed me. π 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"! π¬
@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! π€
@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. π€ π€·ββοΈ
@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 π
Yay for CoSo! #CoSoLove π
P.S., my best moment on the birb was when Tilda replied to one of my tweets... *squeals with joy* π
@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. :)
@Apocryphiliac π€£ I am VERY BEHIND myself, because he has a movie SET IN FREAKING COLOMBIA and I still haven't seen it yet. π€¦ββοΈ With Tilda Swinton, too! BONKERS. CAN'T WAIT. π Oh man. But also, agreed! So amped by the synchronicity in interests. Yay for #CoSo yet again! π