A Literary and Cinematic Comparison: Source & Adapatation
Well, it was about time I got into reading books.
This is going to a be a somewhat ongoing project of mine for some books that I read, I'll compare them to a film adaptation and give my thoughts on both. I created a Goodreads account expressly for that reason and you can find the links to my reviews on that site above. This is not a project…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This has been on my backlog for so long that I was almost scared of watching it in case it didn't meet my expectations. I'm happy to say, it more than exceeded my expectations. This is my favourite Haneke, not The Seventh Continent, not The White Ribbon. The emotional devastation, the commentary on sexual repression and how pornography facilitates self-destructive delusion, the way in which elitist superiority towards "high" art creates a culture of forcing perfection out of artists and the lustful…
I spent the better part of an hour discussing the intricacies behind Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow as it pertains to sexual repression, nostalgia, media consumption, trans representation in art, the intersectionality between sex, race, and class, and most importantly, Fred Durst's bald-ass head in this fucking flick. Needless to say, I'm a little tired of the discourse. The real strength behind I Saw the TV Glow and what sets it apart from other stories of this kind is…
It is an absolute treat to finally watch this again now that it's been remastered. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project is a blessing for movie lovers around the world. Seeing Ardak Amirkulov's timeless historical epic in crisp image quality with no more subtitles faded into the white hues of the film and the vibrant colour sequences that truly pop in this version, reveals to me that I was correct in assuming this film was going to be a feast for…
It takes a special kind of genius to so meticulously craft a film like Crash. I find it genuinely fascinating what goes through the minds of individuals such as Paul Haggis when it comes to constructing one of the most didactic examples of moral altruism in a narrative form. I find Crash to be somewhat sickeningly brilliant as a film that's able to reduce such a hot-button topic as racial injustice and discrimination into basic stereotypes and manage to get…
Violently explosive and angry against the world, King of New York is one of those action crime films that you just fucking cheer for the protagonists. In a highly capitalist, corrupt and esoteric world, Frank White is the Robin Hood figure that takes down the bad guys and gives to the disenfranchised. The police force on other hand is the arm of the system meant to keep those in power safe and in control. It's a cat-and-mouse game as each…
