“Alfred Noble invented dynamite.”
Knowledge is hunger. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is a gaping maw. Knowledge is an unquenchable thirst. Knowledge is a void that we are free to throw our entire beings into. Knowledge is a parasitic figure, eager for more. Knowledge is a child asking “why?” again and again and again and again and again. Knowledge is that child, decades later, screaming “why?” again and again and again and again and again. Knowledge is the screams echoing through…
“I’m still copying you though.”
“I know. Now copy this.”
I am standing in a room and I am looking at my dad.
It is 1996 and he is 33 years old and he is journaling hour by hour the day that I am born. He is the first person to ever put my name to paper. It is 2008 and he is 45 years old and he is gripping my arms too tight and screaming at me, so close I…
Explores the necessity of flight, in all its different forms. Highlights the sort of truth a lot of us feel in our childhoods: it’s us and our sisters against the entire world. An angry, aching sort of film, despite how noticeably its central sisters lack interiority. The Virgin Suicides had a somewhat similar shortcoming, but in that film, that’s part of the POV we view the sisters through (young male admirers) where as with Mustang that lack feels more glaring because we are meant to be experiencing these moments alongside the girls.
This was already a really engaging and cool documentary and then they played Deceptacon by Le Tigre at the perfect moment. Insane aura, as the kids would say.
Its genuine portrayal of faith as something worth interrogating adds a layer of depth to this that the other Knives Out films have lacked, which also means this is very noticeably the best of the trilogy. The use of cool and warm tone lighting is absolutely sublime. Laughed a lot, but more surprisingly, I was moved to tears on a few different occasions. So much about how this needles into the nuances of church-based community, especially for women, strikes a personal cord and is astoundingly effective.
“That poor girl.”
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Grossly irresponsible to make a film that attempts to examine the intensely vitriolic state of American politics amidst the earliest months of COVID and not mention how Trump, or the MAGA-sphere, directly amplified and exacerbated so many of those very issues. But at least we can laugh about the youths caring very loudly about George Floyd’s murder. And we can roll our eyes at the women who succumb to right-wing conspiracies as a coping mechanism to deal with trauma that…
