malina forever

literally have cried every single time mal says "meet you in the meadow" in ep 1. i think this is my 3rd or 4th time

I liked it!

I think the first 23 minutes were my favorite; I loved the contrast of the intense silence of his world and the ceaseless overlay narration of his thoughts. That's what it feels like to just, like, be a person most of the time. I feel like narration overlays in movies have been dismissed as cheesy in recent years, and this showed that they can be done well.

We need more disconcertingly terse characters in movies??

"Interesting."

The Tilda Swinton scene was awkward because she was so much more interesting than him that it felt disjointed, misplaced, like obviously the movie was supposed to be about her.

From the perspective of this being a movie that actually has nothing to do with mormor, I didn't "get" it? I don't know. I didn't understand why it was made, I guess. What was the story's purpose? I both liked it and felt like it was telling a story I couldn't quite grasp. I'm not actually interested in killers/hitmen, and I don't understand why we portray hitmen in such glamorized/unrealistic ways in our media, so that might be it. Like, this isn't really a movie about a killer because killers are not really like this. So then it's really just about a nihilistic white man who feels superior, and I'm not interested in those kinds of people, either.

From the perspective of mormor: This was perfect??? So many fanfic elements put onto our movie screen: Sebastian Moran as a very clever sniper with an outrageous net worth—are you kidding me????

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