Okay, okay, you got me, I’ll watch it. Have been on the fence since it came out - for all the reasons you mention, plus the fact that my wife has ZERO interest.
Also, I never hear people mention this, but this movie is also really funny, and in an entirely realistic way. Mostly from Lucas Hedges, probably the most realistically infuriating teen boy in movie history.
How exciting, I just finished (re)watching this, like literally right now. Your words hit the nail on the head - it's such a moving film. The first time I watched it was with my wife not long after its release and when the source of Lee's darkness is revealed we both looked at each other as if to say - 'this is not the film we thought we'd rented' 😂
Totally! And what's more is that when we learn why Lee is the way he is, we realize there's still another hour--and things get even worse. It's exhausting, and I mean that as high praise.
"The beauties of this [film] impress themselves so strongly upon the attention of the reader, that they can draw no aid from critical illustration." (From Samuel Johnson's Substack, 1765).
Okay, okay, you got me, I’ll watch it. Have been on the fence since it came out - for all the reasons you mention, plus the fact that my wife has ZERO interest.
That's the correct move.
Nice— i’ll be interested to hear what you think!
Also, I never hear people mention this, but this movie is also really funny, and in an entirely realistic way. Mostly from Lucas Hedges, probably the most realistically infuriating teen boy in movie history.
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“ realistically irritating,” yes—a sub genre!
How exciting, I just finished (re)watching this, like literally right now. Your words hit the nail on the head - it's such a moving film. The first time I watched it was with my wife not long after its release and when the source of Lee's darkness is revealed we both looked at each other as if to say - 'this is not the film we thought we'd rented' 😂
Totally! And what's more is that when we learn why Lee is the way he is, we realize there's still another hour--and things get even worse. It's exhausting, and I mean that as high praise.
"The beauties of this [film] impress themselves so strongly upon the attention of the reader, that they can draw no aid from critical illustration." (From Samuel Johnson's Substack, 1765).