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Black Widow (2021)
..."(with the girls being totally indestructible which really bothers me)"
ALERT! Your imagination may be insufficient if you can't even entertain at baseline that THEY ACTUALLY ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE. We're all familiar with Marvel melodrama, yes? Can you even grasp, bro? Imagine having zero plasticity of mind - true neutral evil, a whole fool - but also with the power to amplify your bloviated jejune nonsense opinions through online movie reviews. Again:
"(with the girls being totally indestructible which really bothers me)"
Michelangelo: A Self Portrait (1989)
Since man is made in god's image, the body is the soul's book.
Beautiful. Riveting personal stories of his life in his words. The narrator is using his own voice, pace and emphasis! Michel got in fist fights at school. Teachers hated him. Super supportive dad. Those huge slabs of rock already contained the figures and he was only revealing them! "It emerges evenly, like an object rising to the surface of the water... A sculptor can achieve nothing that the marble itself does not contain." WOW I had to keep rewinding to capture these absolute gems, spoken at this pace:
I'm carving another Pietá. God grant I may finish it.
So different from my first in Saint Peter's when I was twenty.
Beauty was my idol then; now faith alone guides,
leads me by the hand to my day of judgement.
On the martyred skin of Saint Bartholomew,
I painted my own face.
In Search of Beethoven (2009)
The close-ups you've always wanted to see!
EDIT: watch it for the professor in a powdered wig, handing out hard-earned history lessons with a straight face, fully fangirling over his haloed Beethoven, passionately gasping out different ways to phrase "changed music forever." He's so serious!
Ah, but then they read his letters out. "1801, dear friend, I can no longer hear the high notes of voices or instruments.." Oof. So he goes on from here drinking mercury from his doctor dutifully, he finds love, loses love, throws over his life, moves to a new land, goes half insane and goes COMPLETELY DEAF. THEN, he dropped the Ninth Symphony like a bomb on a big crowd expecting a Brahms lullaby- totally shattered the scene, blowing off wigs, the room cheered out loud together! - by the time the audience leapt to their feet & she walked over to turn him around so he could understand the resounding joy he had given them, music would never be the same again.
We bask in long, up-close shots of genius fingers flying over keys in some of the most technically difficult music ever dared, written by Beethoven specifically as VENGEANCE ON HIS ENEMIES! Only Liszt was also this ballsy. You can HEAR the jolty, tilting deviations of the train from the rails of his life - & now you can SEE it, too. An outrageously intimate, deeply enjoyable documentary.
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)
What a great family can do
This is more than a film around Billie. It's an intimate look directly into a supportive, loving, open, deeply functional family. The dynamic between the parents and siblings, how easily they all talk to each other and really listen, how they lift each other up, is absolutely wild. I was moved. This brave, beautiful artist is what happens when creativity and intelligence are stoked by an unconditionally accepting, emotionally present family.