cora ♡

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

But the weakness of OBAA was the camera's failure to take even a panning shot that might linger with those parallel storylines. That frenetic pace should have been interwoven with moments of stillness and quiet, to allow us to get a sense of the spaces these characters inhabit. Instead we rushed from one new set to another and the camera was overly enamored of the big stars like Leo and Sean Penn to make space for the side characters who might have ultimately enhanced our viewing experience. That's where Sinners' moment of Smoke teaching the young girl to negotiate was far more sophisticated. Also not a fan of the shaky camera technique or the grandiose shots of the church from an angle in the ceiling. Now that I know Benicio del Toro re-imagined the script with those moments, I can understand that it was a white-male centric narrative and POC were inserted into it with the camera's primary interest and loyalty remaining with the former. Unlike Sinners which refreshingly de-centers the white male gaze and excels at the ensemble.

Cute doggies