I’m running out of horror flicks to see, so last night I was happy to notice one I hadn’t watched on Amazon – ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’. There was a big warning sign – it was made in 2019. It was also produced by Guillermo del Toro, who despite his past interest in Lovecraft fiction, has been on a downward spiral of cringe and wokeness since… hard to tell.
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I’m sort of an aficionado when it comes to the sf/mystery movie genre, so when I came across “Await Further Instructions” (Director Johnny Kevorkian) during the prolonged lock down days, I gave it a shot.
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Nerds, so treasured by the middle brow denizens who occupy the cities and want to think that, well, at least they are smart and deserve RESPECT, are people who possess a type of self-destructive parody of intelligence. Their ability to entertain pointless concepts and abstractions make them believe they have
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I watched ‘Joker’ in a Parisian theatre. A few positive impressions first – the cinematography is outstanding – the camerawork, composition of the frames, the pacing of the action, the psychological evolution of the characters and the conflict development are very thoughtful. Joaquin Phoenix gave one of his all-time best performances. The fascination of the clown as a tragicomic character, the theme of the masses rioting and the inverted hero archetype, throwing a corrupt world into chaos, are excellently introduced without seeming forced or ideologised.
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‘Wild Wild Country’, the documentary focusing on the cult of Bhaghwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) and their little social experiment is an excellent example of a socially progressive ideology tested in real life, in a concrete place and time, with a concrete community.
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