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Significant Other (2022)
What a BLAST!
Just finished watching this little number and am still smiling as a little patience offered some BIG rewards. This is not the typical fare one might expect from the opening minutes. Formidable suspense and unanticipated turns are offered up in great form by Berk and Olsen who show us just how clever they are. The crisp script dances with metaphor regarding games of trust and domination between partners, while also brilliantly illustrating the heaviness of self-esteem issues. While I loved the very final scene, the ending could have been a bit more obtuse, but, hey... what is perfection, anyway? It's well-worth the 1:24 minute ride!
Blue Valentine (2010)
Add Two Basis Points for Featuring Ryan Gosling in Anything
I could watch Ryan Gosling stand around, sit around and walk around and remove his shirt all day long. No problem there. I also happen to think he's a wonderful actor, but it's a little hard to prove with this yawn fest. I waited and waited until the roll of the first ending credit, but not only did nothing happen, no one even said anything of much interest. These are your friends, your family, your neighbors; simply living. That's it. Living. No one's good, no one's bad, nothing's wrong, nothing's right. Just people being people. Weird premise for a film.
There was some attractive cinematography and Gosling and Williams did a fine job, but where's the script? Huh? The story is: Not happy. Not sad. Not hot. Not revealing. Not amusing. Not clever. Not nutthin'. There IS no story.
Now THAT'S sad.
Panic Room (2002)
I got just what I expected, and more!
We all know what to expect from a premise like this. Sometimes it's reward enough to see it done well. While his talent can effortlessly surpass the genre of the "thriller", David Fincher's direction makes "Panic Room" something out of the ordinary. It's truly dark. It's truly suspenseful and it's the smack-in-the-head one hopes for from this genre. Jared Leto and Dwight Yoakam shine, comic book style. If you're looking for edge-of-your-seat entertainment, don't hesitate. "Panic Room" will make you squirm.
Buffalo '66 (1998)
A Remarkably Passionate Disparity of Commentary Signals Art
Reading through the numerous reviews offered here by the thoughtful viewers of this film, it is undeniable that extreme passions abound, be they glorious or downright disparaging.
This is what true art does, does it not?
Inspiring the desire to react, Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66" has achieved the heights to which so many films aspire, but few succeed... the high controversy of its merit.
Is it an ugly, muddled, loose-ended exercise in self-indulgence? Is it a brilliantly choreographed, visceral and visual display to challenge the viewer?
What is it?
It's a puzzlement, and an age old one, at that... What is 'art'?