A Vigilante. Wilde is superb. The movie is not. Among recent woman-seeks-revenge movies, I looooooved Revenge. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts was pretty good. MFA was alright.
Tag: revenge
Mandy
Mandy. Psychedelic revenge horror. This was a little too drawn out for me. You’re just immersed in suffering. But its mood and wholeness was great. The woozy rainbow colors and lens flare (like Annihilation), the washes of color. Excellent soundtrack – I’ve been using it for work music ever since.
Noahpinion: Django Unchained: A white revenge fantasy
With a bit of cartoonish violence, Quentin Tarantino was able to do what a thousand reasonable op-eds and preachy biopics have been unable to do: reverse white people’s affinity for the South. I see Django as a white revenge fantasy – whites, whose ancestors (like Tarantino’s) had no part in the institution of slavery, saying “No. The South does not get to represent my racial group. If I was alive in the 1800s, I would have shot those assholes right in the head!”
Vengeance
Vengeance. I admit it: I was seduced by the cover art. Points awarded for creative use of lighting and nice work with with framing and staging and such. The plot is your basic revenge tale and I didn’t find much to stir my blood.
Kingdom of the Blind: Revenge missions in the films of Clint Eastwood by Matt Zoller Seitz – Moving Image Source
“Is Eastwood an exploitation filmmaker with aspirations to importance, or an artist who uses violent action to entice viewers into experiencing his films’ more complex aspects?” Part two.
Kingdom of the Blind: Revenge missions in the films of Clint Eastwood by Matt Zoller Seitz – Moving Image Source
“Is Eastwood an exploitation filmmaker with aspirations to importance, or an artist who uses violent action to entice viewers into experiencing his films’ more complex aspects?” Part two.