Category: tv love
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Rivers of Blood and Nonsense: Mangrove, The Trial of the Chicago 7, 3 Brothers (2020)
In a year marked by an 8 minute 46 second snuff film extracted out of the routine of daily life by psychopathic law enforcers, what’s more relevant and painful and, thankfully, cathartic than Steve McQueen’s Mangrove? It opens in joy, with the opening of a Black-owned business and West Indian Londoners celebrating in the street, […]
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Rey and The Levitz Paradigm
The film sets up a simple question: Who is Rey? “Who is Rey” is the main story, no? Not “Who is Finn”, which is answered pretty quickly, or “Who is Kylo Ren” or “Where is Luke Skywalker”, since these are more or less addressed after Rey’s story kicks into gear. The film eventually answers the Kylo Ren and Luke questions, but it lops off the last step in its main character Rey’s arc, delaying the answer for a later date. It feels like chaos at the end, like something went wrong.
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Hopeful Apocalypse: The Sound Template for Carnivale
The apocalypse at the center of Carnivale — a heavily hyped battle between agents of good and evil that devolves into silly histrionics at series cancellation — layers a foundation of doom for small, strategically-placed epiphanies. The deeply wrought American-style poverty, dirt, dust storms, yellow and soot camera filters, chaw spittle, bad teeth, five-day growth, […]