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🕑 Added 2021-10-26 02:29:34 +0000 UTCI know everyone is talking about DUNE, but....meh. That's less my thing, as you guys likely figured out. XD I'm still thinking about TITANE. All the things that touched me about it, but also certain things that I struggled with. I do think that Julia has a masterpiece in her. She's just not quite there yet. But big steps in the right direction it seems. I won't lie...I don't often cry in movies. But I cried hard at the end of this one. It reminded me of an experience I had in my own life, which I rarely see depicted accurately by anyone other than people like Gaspar Noe currently. If you have seen it, what parts of the film moved you the most and why? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences.
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Deepfocuslens
I agree fully. I think those themes resonated with me very strongly...because I relate to it quite strongly. But we all do to some degree. But finding love in an unlikely way, is often the thing we dismiss for the toxic love. Because it isn't as rooted in the flesh. It is unconditional. That's something I find myself still learning. And the end...reminded me of an extreme drug trip I had, where all those themes clicked in nearly an identical way. So...it all was a bit heightened for me, the experience.
Deepfocuslens
That's how I felt. Though the idea I think can still be handled more maturely...I felt that sense of ill-fitting genres, before things begin to grow more abstract.
jared Clarke
The fire station Vincent Lindon part made me think of Beau Travail. I know Bonnello has said he’s influenced by Claire Denis, wouldn’t be a stretch for Ducaurnau to be as well.
jared Clarke
Same the way music and dance is reincorporated really is brilliant. I thought it felt uneven at first, but it made me realize it’s apart of the film expressionism. The film itself is having a metamorphosis, while the characters are changing themselves.
Bennett Oliver
I always responded to Alexia’s relationship to Vincent. For me, I felt that her attraction to cars went hand in hand with her murderous impulses: she always felt she wasn’t human and was more along the lines of a machine, an automaton moving amongst the masses. Getting a plate in her head wasn’t a traumatic experience, but rather a fulfilling one. As a result, she doesn’t relate much to people, so when they get too close, in either a threatening or intimate way (she equates the two), she kills them. Alexia is basically living a numb, nihilistic existence. That’s why it’s so moving to watch her burgeoning “father/son” relationship with Vincent. We get to watch her walls break down and her humanity awaken. Each successive scene she has with Vincent, from her sparing his life to the Macarena resuscitation to her helping him with his injection, gives the film a moving emotional core. I liked the moment when she grabs his hand as it rests on the sink. Right up to their final scene, when Alexia embraces Vincent on the bed and he turns away from the door to help her as she gives birth, we’re witnessing a very strange, amorphous love between two people. But it’s love nonetheless.
Tony Moro
Who cares about those films. What are your thoughts going into the upcoming film The Batman? Do you like the Se7en vibe?
Tyler Shobe
I just rewatched it tonight. The middle, more grounded story worked so much better for me on second watch. Probably cause that tone shift was a lot easier to kind of take in. I guess initially I was kind of disappointed that the middle wasn't nearly as off the wall as the beginning. But I think this time I was better able to sort of just feel the highly emotional story actually being told here. The part that I think really sticks with me the most is when Vincent catches Adrien in the yellow dress and can't help but laugh and then shows them the picture of Adrien in the same dress when he was younger. I just love Vincent's acceptance of Adrien's gender fluidity but also I think that's a key scene for forming that bond between Adrien and Vincent.
