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It disappoints me that The Wolf of Wall Street was included in Sight and Sound's Top 20 of 2014. I'm just not convinced it is anything special. It's a fun movie, but it's just noise (well-made noise, but noise nonetheless). I think Gone Girl is a better film in every respect, but I think because it's so grounded in genre that it isn't taken seriously as a piece of art. Gone Girl produced some incredible performances from all the major players, Wolf got a good performance from Jonah Hill, but otherwise Leo just yelled at the camera, said fuck a lot, and did some physical comedy, and I barely remember Margot Robbie. I'm not even convinced that Gone Girl belongs on sight and sound's list, but if The Wolf of Wall Street made it many many other films have been robbed.

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My biggest issue with the whole Lena Dunham thing is this tweet. Specifically, the phrase 'don't demean suffers'. That phrase privileges her views of the events before the victims. Lena is saying here that Grace isn't a victim. Grace is silenced here. Even if Lena's actions were 'innocent', that doesn't mean they did not have an effect on Grace. What Lena is saying is that because she did not intend to hurt Grace, Grace is not a person who suffered/suffers abuse. That is like Lena's rapist saying she isn't a sufferer of rape because he did not intend the rape to hurt her.

One episode in a row where Connor's magical gayness was not a deus ex machina. This is cause for celebration.

#How To Get Away With Murder

cachaemic

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Charles Bukowski (via bittersweetsongs)

Wow bukowski so profound do you also bathe fully clothed you dickhead. “Oohh isn’t it funny that a person will eat when they’re hungry but will duck if you throw an apple at their face”

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Holy fuck. I've often wondered whether I bite the bullet and read Bukowski, given that he's one of the more widely read modern poets. This single handedly answered that question for me, I shall not purchase anything Bukowski.

I marathoned Enemy and Under The Skin tonight. They both get better every time I watch them. Enemy is singularly mesmerising. Under The Skin never fails to fuck me up. I'm doing worse than usual tonight, too, because I'm 3/4 a bottle of wine down already.

#Under the Skin #Enemy #Jonathan Glazer #denis villeneuve #scarlett johansson #Jake Gyllenhaal #Melanie Laurent #Sarah Gadon

JUST SAW GONE GIRL

I just saw Gone Girl and it's fucking fantastic. Ben Affleck deserves lavish praise, Rosamund Pike deserves many awards for best actress. Tyler Perry does an absolutely excellent job. But the best performance in the film is Carrie Coon. This woman is breaking through in style. The fact that Gone Girl is her film debut shows exactly how much promise she has. I had read the book so it's hard for me to judge the suspense and how the story plays out, but my friend said she was never sure who to side with, which is the whole point of the mystery side of the film. But this is a film about a crumbling marriage, even more so than the book was. The Oscars this year will be a race between this and Inherent Vice. It's one of the best mainstream films this year and it will launch the careers of Rosamund Pike (who's been in the background for far too long) and Carrie Coon.

#gone girl

Freak Show

Saying that American Horror Story: Freak Show is going to be a train wreck does not do train wrecks justice. The circumstances in which a train wreck is comparable to Freak Show is if it were a train filled with liquid shit, and that train comes off the rails on a hill and tumbles down the hill and crushes half of the inhabitants of a little village that live at the bottom of the hill and literally drowns the rest of the inhabitants in liquid human shit, and then because of the bacteria from the decomposing bodies and the shit that area becomes a biohazard risk and a new disease is born that wipes out 95% of the world's population. If that's what you mean, then Freak Show is going to be a train wreck, yes.

#American Horror Story #Freak Show

The Leftovers

I just binged on The Leftovers and I think it is an incredible piece of television. I know a lot of the reviews are just good, the main criticism being that it doesn't have well defined arcs. But I think we're at a point where television, and indeed all storytelling, can choose not to be beholden to plot. I see a lot of similarity in style between The Leftovers and Enlightened, and I think had enlightened premiered after the leftovers, it would still be around. But at the same time, I don't think hbo would have picked up the leftovers if it hadn't taken the risk with enlightened.

#the leftovers #enlightened

coral

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Albert Camus (via feellng)

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peekaboo is essentially just making fun of babies for not understanding object permanence

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what’s the difference between a dirty bus stop and a lobster with breast implants ?

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one’s a crusty bus station and one’s a busty crustacean

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#i’ve told this joke a million times and it NEVER fails

I just bought new underwear and they're microfibre and they're more comfortable than anything I've ever experienced in my life, and I own a set of 2000 thread count sheets. These are like silk had a baby with satin.

#bonds #microfibre #microfiber #underwear

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I am haunted by all the editions of books that are prettier than the ones I already own.

Last night I wrote what I think could be the best poem I will ever write in my life, which is an all kinds of incredible and disconcerting feeling. Incidentally, it is a poem about Under The Skin, which is probably one of the most important films released so far this decade. If I'm feeling generous, I may upload it later.

#poetry #under the skin #writing