if you think Villenueve is subtle, you should watch Prisoners
Bullshit. He doesn't hit you over the head with any of the themes in BR2049. A lot of people who don't live online didn't even know some of them were there.
Already at that point in the backlash cycle where people like you not only insult the director but imply part of his audience is stupid. For no reason.
Villenueve is not, and never will be, a director known for his subtlety.
Already at that point in the backlash cycle where people like you not only insult the director but imply part of his audience is stupid. For no reason.
Villenueve is not, and never will be, a director known for his subtlety.
Don't get me wrong -- Villenueve is an unsubtle director, and that's precisely what I love about him. His films don't just take on the structure of epics and myths, but fully embrace them and subvert them with modernist twists.
For fuck's sake, the protagonist is literally named Joe K. and quotes Pale Fire lol
Since when was subtlety a prerequisite for quality?
Really?
Implying he isn't subtle implies his themes are obvious upon first viewing, which I completely disagree with. They need time to digest and to be thought about.
And this is just wrong.
I like him (and so does Dave Chen) but it is kind of funny how many of his movies it applies to, at least at a stretch. Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Blade Runner.
A stretch of extreme reductionism.
Which part of Enemy is subtle?
which is one of the many ways to make a joke
Posted this in the BO thread by mistake
One thing that jumped at me more in the second viewing was Luv's behavior. There's a lot of repressed emotion going on there. There were two moments where she teared up iirc but I can't remember the exact context. One is in the scene where Wallace looks at the new model, but I'm not sure why she teared up exactly.
Posted this in the BO thread by mistake
One thing that jumped at me more in the second viewing was Luv's behavior. There's a lot of repressed emotion going on there. There were two moments where she teared up iirc but I can't remember the exact context. One is in the scene where Wallace looks at the new model, but I'm not sure why she teared up exactly.
Posted this in the BO thread by mistake
One thing that jumped at me more in the second viewing was Luv's behavior. There's a lot of repressed emotion going on there. There were two moments where she teared up iirc but I can't remember the exact context. One is in the scene where Wallace looks at the new model, but I'm not sure why she teared up exactly.
Implying he isnt subtle implies his themes are obvious upon first viewing, which I completely disagree with. They need time to digest and to be thought about.
Fear for not living up to Wallace's expectations?
Posted this in the BO thread by mistake
One thing that jumped at me more in the second viewing was Luv's behavior. There's a lot of repressed emotion going on there. There were two moments where she teared up iirc but I can't remember the exact context. One is in the scene where Wallace looks at the new model, but I'm not sure why she teared up exactly.
BR2049 is not a "noir movie", like, not even a little.
Its practically Space Chinatown, jesus.
I have to agree. Just because you see the themes very clearly doesn't mean the general public can. There are articles that have missed the criticisms the movie rises towards society and take the movie as if it were male gaze to the max.
This is more in relation to her and Wallace, but she also gives K a pec on the lips like she saw Wallace did with the replicant he kills.She was also so joyful when she thought she beat K on that fight.
She also shed tears when she murdered Madam.
For fuck's sake, the protagonist is literally named Joe K. and quotes Pale Fire lol
Me too.
People saying this was too slow or could stand to have chunks cut are crazy.
She was also so joyful when she thought she beat K on that fight.
This is more in relation to her and Wallace, but she also gives K a pec on the lips like she saw Wallace did with the replicant he kills.
Luv not killing K at the climax? It was because she was worried about Deckard drowning.She did beat him.
Illogically NOT killing him was just weird.
She did beat him.
Illogically NOT killing him was just weird.
Shit, I didn't think even make that connection LOL. While I was watching the movie Luv's desire to be the best was clear enough but I didn't think of how else this is shown. The film didn't even need Luv to say that line about being the best.Fuck, I completely forgot about that. She basically kissed then gutted K just like how Wallace kissed and gutted his imperfect new replicant. It'd also explain why she didn't finish him off, she tried to let him bleed out just like the other.
Who or what is Joe K & pale fire? And how do they relate to 2049? Im not familier.
Fuck, I completely forgot about that. She basically kissed then gutted K just like how Wallace kissed and gutted his imperfect new replicant. It'd also explain why she didn't finish him off, she tried to let him bleed out just like the other.
Fuck, I completely forgot about that. She basically kissed then gutted K just like how Wallace kissed and gutted his imperfect new replicant. It'd also explain why she didn't finish him off, she tried to let him bleed out just like the other.
This didn't have the film noir motifs, the vibrant use of color
I must have missed where the joke is. Comedy is rooted in honesty, that tweet had almost none.