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So, it is Oscar season (not the dolphin) and here are a couple of movies that should/will be nominated. These two movies I watched in one weekend (Saturday and Sunday), which I DO NOT recommend doing but I DO RECOMMEND seeing them. The (triggering)themes, polarizing content and visuals were jarring and worth giving time to process each movie on its own but I watched them together, they go in the same post!
“Eddington” (HBO)
May 2020, a New Mexico Mayor (Pascal)of Eddington orders a lockdown/mask mandate due to the Covid-19 pandemic and local Sheriff (Phoenix) argues the order/mandate violates freedom of choice. I can feel your butthole clenching but stay with me. Couple that with growing fear of a small town, the unknown virus threat and the upcoming bid for the town to host a data-center. Sides are taken, unstable family members spin the hell out, misinformation with real life consequences, antifa, child trafficking survivor cult, BLM scapegoats, long range shooting as a skill set and Emma Stone being wholly unsettling (and this was before Bugonia) shot in this dust bowl of f*ck. The movie is really, really good. Regardless of where you currently stand politically or stood then, every single person in this movie is amazing. Or, if you’re a western guy, it’s a western.
“One Battle After Another” (HBO)
Far-left revolutionary group called the French 75 are making their presence known in a dystopian future. An explosive guy (DiCaprio) and his aggressively ambitious lover (Teyana Taylor), make a powerful enemy (Penn) with sexual humiliation of the commanding officer while breaking people out of a detention center. He becomes obsessed and makes the French 75 demise his personal passion project to destroy. The French 75 pull more jobs, blow up more federal buildings, always escalating, always taking bigger risks until the chaos catches up with them. DiCaprio must go off the grid, leaving the group with his newborn daughter and try a fresh start in Northern California. Leo as a paranoid hippy stoner single dad, but it is not funny (while dressing like the big lebowski) which I am assuming in real life (if that was your situation) would be true.
Time jumps sixteen years later, things are messier globally, worse racially and Sean Penn is coming for you. It’s a lot and it kind of freaked me out as violence, tonal shifts, portrayal of race and timely political themes do now but it kept me engaged. Just would not characterize it as an action-movie due to the pacing but the story stays with you long after it is over, so for me it works and you should give it a try.
“Eddington” (HBO)
May 2020, a New Mexico Mayor (Pascal)of Eddington orders a lockdown/mask mandate due to the Covid-19 pandemic and local Sheriff (Phoenix) argues the order/mandate violates freedom of choice. I can feel your butthole clenching but stay with me. Couple that with growing fear of a small town, the unknown virus threat and the upcoming bid for the town to host a data-center. Sides are taken, unstable family members spin the hell out, misinformation with real life consequences, antifa, child trafficking survivor cult, BLM scapegoats, long range shooting as a skill set and Emma Stone being wholly unsettling (and this was before Bugonia) shot in this dust bowl of f*ck. The movie is really, really good. Regardless of where you currently stand politically or stood then, every single person in this movie is amazing. Or, if you’re a western guy, it’s a western.
“One Battle After Another” (HBO)
Far-left revolutionary group called the French 75 are making their presence known in a dystopian future. An explosive guy (DiCaprio) and his aggressively ambitious lover (Teyana Taylor), make a powerful enemy (Penn) with sexual humiliation of the commanding officer while breaking people out of a detention center. He becomes obsessed and makes the French 75 demise his personal passion project to destroy. The French 75 pull more jobs, blow up more federal buildings, always escalating, always taking bigger risks until the chaos catches up with them. DiCaprio must go off the grid, leaving the group with his newborn daughter and try a fresh start in Northern California. Leo as a paranoid hippy stoner single dad, but it is not funny (while dressing like the big lebowski) which I am assuming in real life (if that was your situation) would be true.
Time jumps sixteen years later, things are messier globally, worse racially and Sean Penn is coming for you. It’s a lot and it kind of freaked me out as violence, tonal shifts, portrayal of race and timely political themes do now but it kept me engaged. Just would not characterize it as an action-movie due to the pacing but the story stays with you long after it is over, so for me it works and you should give it a try.