This is time to become a 3rd Amendment absolutist.
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is not to exonerate anyone involved, but to indicate the limits of working around a reactionary core narrative, where the attempts to make a nuanced or socially conscious version only reenforce the issues.
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This is not to exonerate anyone involved, but to indicate the limits of working around a reactionary core narrative, where the attempts to make a nuanced or socially conscious version only reenforce the issues.
(I wanted to add that I enjoyed the thread and agree with it quite a bit.)
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
(I wanted to add that I enjoyed the thread and agree with it quite a bit.)
My initial thoughts on Letterboxd: boxd.it/859a3r
A ★★★★ review of Sicario (2015)
An FBI agent is drawn into a case on the border whose depths of depravity she cannot comprehend. The borderland in this neo-western is a liminal space, not only between nations, but where the boundary...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My initial thoughts on Letterboxd: boxd.it/859a3r
The thing I have realized more and more in the months since seeing SICARIO for the first time is how much of what made it enjoyable for me - the score, the camerawork, focusing on del Toro's physical acting over dialogue, the ambiguity of its final scene, etc. - is in spite of the screenplay.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The thing I have realized more and more in the months since seeing SICARIO for the first time is how much of what made it enjoyable for me - the score, the camerawork, focusing on del Toro's physical acting over dialogue, the ambiguity of its final scene, etc. - is in spite of the screenplay.