These don't have to be vegan, vegetarian or animal rights oriented. I thought it might be informative and entertaining to talk about recent movies we like.
I watched The Wrath last night, which is a 2018 Japanese horror film now available streaming on-line. Wow, what a beautiful film with elegant cinematography, and truly creepy but subtle horror. It's the sort of thing I could watch again and again, which is a trait of people who like atmospheric, supernatural horror. Saying too much might ruin your experience of it. Do watch!
Speaking of horror, I also liked 2018's Amazon Prime remake of Suspiria. I didn't think I would like it, I thought I would be mad that they even tried to touch Dario Argento, but similarly to how Rob Zombie dealt with John Carpenter's Halloween, the film was elevated into a script with a more complex, in-depth plot that doesn't even *try* to be the original. Where as 77 Suspiria was all feminine pastel colors, neon lights and spectacular gore, the 2018 is muted rainy, industrial grays, set in Cold War East Germany with a few horrifically grotesque scenes primarily off-set by very a subtle, quiet spookiness. Guilt is apparently a common emotion people feel while watching this film, or the eerie sense of watching something they're not supposed to see. For me, I felt haunted more by a long ago childhood (I wasn't a child in the 1970s but there was enough about the 80s which remained that something about this film feels strangely....familiar, maybe partly because I took ballet and modern jazz dance for 11 years), the suggestion of deceased relatives, and overall senseless human loss. Because of course it intersperses the Holocaust with themes like pagan witchcraft, political upheaval, and the specific social cruelties of women as a gender.
I also recently watched Joaquin Phoenix's current films, The Joker and The Animal People, but I wasn't especially fond of The Joker (though I do have some things to say about it) and I found The Animal People informative but I'm pretty sure there's already an entire thread about it on the forum.
I watched The Wrath last night, which is a 2018 Japanese horror film now available streaming on-line. Wow, what a beautiful film with elegant cinematography, and truly creepy but subtle horror. It's the sort of thing I could watch again and again, which is a trait of people who like atmospheric, supernatural horror. Saying too much might ruin your experience of it. Do watch!
Speaking of horror, I also liked 2018's Amazon Prime remake of Suspiria. I didn't think I would like it, I thought I would be mad that they even tried to touch Dario Argento, but similarly to how Rob Zombie dealt with John Carpenter's Halloween, the film was elevated into a script with a more complex, in-depth plot that doesn't even *try* to be the original. Where as 77 Suspiria was all feminine pastel colors, neon lights and spectacular gore, the 2018 is muted rainy, industrial grays, set in Cold War East Germany with a few horrifically grotesque scenes primarily off-set by very a subtle, quiet spookiness. Guilt is apparently a common emotion people feel while watching this film, or the eerie sense of watching something they're not supposed to see. For me, I felt haunted more by a long ago childhood (I wasn't a child in the 1970s but there was enough about the 80s which remained that something about this film feels strangely....familiar, maybe partly because I took ballet and modern jazz dance for 11 years), the suggestion of deceased relatives, and overall senseless human loss. Because of course it intersperses the Holocaust with themes like pagan witchcraft, political upheaval, and the specific social cruelties of women as a gender.
I also recently watched Joaquin Phoenix's current films, The Joker and The Animal People, but I wasn't especially fond of The Joker (though I do have some things to say about it) and I found The Animal People informative but I'm pretty sure there's already an entire thread about it on the forum.
