Rethink.

As always, spoilers below. For Jason Zola. Couldn’t say it much better myself, but I’ll try:The opening scenes of the movie seem to be archival footage taken from a bombing pilot’s cockpit. We watch huts explode slowly, almost rhythmically, as the plane flies by. At first, one thinks “wow that’s beautiful,” and the music reinforces …

Most of the observations below, if not all, belong to Paul Drozdowski. Many thanks, as always. Spoilers abound below. I disagree thoroughly with Pajiba on this film – the argument there is that the weakest of the three locations where narrative unravels (Morocco, Mexico/US border, Japan) is Japan. The passage in full that I think …

Most of this movie is not worth commenting on, and I’m going to sound insane posting this. Furthermore, in order to do justice to the themes that seem to be articulated in the movie, I have to say things that are not my own positions on things, but you’re used to that. Still, it’s on …

Note: This essay relies on spoilers. If you have not seen “The Prestige,” which has a mystery that unfolds throughout it, do not read this essay. for Elizabeth Wolcott The “two” magicians that drive the plot of this movie are mirrored by scientists Tesla and Edison. It is that association between Hugh Jackman’s aristocrat, who …

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came. – Hopkins No one gives a damn. You have to take it. – Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), “The Departed” I want my …