#popcorn thoughts

There is a time and place to watch specific movies, and I can confidently say that this movie was one to watch, either in theaters or in the comfort of your room. Or you can be like me and watch when you are in the middle seat of a 5-hour late evening flight.

Now, don't come into this movie "review" thinking I'm some bibliophile or cinephile that can catch every movie or literary reference. Contrary to the first half of my blog name, I am an average joe watching movies and sharing my thoughts on the movies.

For my horror movie lovers, this movie isn't teemed with screams. In all honesty, my heebies were jeebied watching this. Again, definitely not a movie to watch in the middle seat of an airplane. I think the shots were perfectly set up to give the creepy, uneasy feelings. The choice to make this film entirely black and white gave it an old horror feeling that I love. The night scenes of the movie were marvelous in conveying this dream-like, borderline-nightmarish feel that Pattinson's character goes through.

Major kudos to Dafoe and Pattinson for their acting. It truly felt like I was descending with Pattinson into madness as the movie went on. And to Dafoe, I bestow the triple M crown (mansplain, manipulate, & manslaughter) to his character. There's a specific scene, mid biscoff cookie munch, where Dafoe's character is gaslighting Pattison, and I, too, was like, "Wait, is what he is saying true because I could have sworn that's what happened, but perhaps Winslow (Pattinson) is an unreliable p.o.v." My gaslight goblin paid his rent in this scene. 🫶🏻

All in all, I was thoroughly entertained on the flight home. A profuse apology to those that sat around me or behind me in the darkness of our evening flight that witnessed me witnessing Robert Pattison have a wank on my iPad.

At last, I leave you with a popcorn thought from the artist himself: