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Tenet (2020)
Don't even know what to rate this
There's so much to appreciate here. That opening scene was incredible, probably my favourite scene in the movie. Pretty much all of the action scenes were great. The score was fantastic, although a little overbearing at times. I didn't think the mixing was a bad as people were saying, apart from the last 30 minutes or so where I couldn't make out what anyone was saying. The cinematography was good. Nothing too great, but good nonetheless.
I appreciate the complexity, but it's too much for it's own good. I just can't wrap my head around the concept. Most of the dialogue was just the characters trying to explain things to the audience, but it just doesn't help in my opinion.
Didn't think there were any glaring flaws anywhere, so I'd give it at the very least a 6 or a 7, but I'm just going to leave it for now and hopefully rewatch it soon.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
My interpretation of the movie.
Sorry if the layout of this is messy.
So the janitor is obviously Jake, and I think the "young woman (I'll address her as Lucy)" is her own person at most points, rather than her actually being the same as Jake, which is a theory I don't understand.
Most of what we see in the film is a fantasy. Jake is a person who holds on to all of his old memories, obsessing over what could've been. Right from the beginning, he is watching old cartoons on a vintage TV, then he looks out of his window at a swing set, which he's held onto over all these years. When he is in the car listening to the radio, Isaiah 1:18 is mentioned: "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." I think this could be in relation to him being haunted by his past, but is still hopeful that he can rid himself of this, possibly by inserting religion into his life. These memories keep coming back though. He sees two students dancing in the hallway, reminding him of the musicals he would enjoy. He watches on as the students rehearse a song from Oklahoma, his favourite musical. There doesn't seem to be any way for him to escape these memories.
When Lucy recites the poem Bonedog, it talks about loneliness and the sadness of coming home to an empty house, it's obviously relating to Jake, which he says himself. He lives identical days as he gets older and older. I think it's reasonable to say that Jake has been a janitor for most of his adult life. He comes home to a house of bone. He's constantly wanting to come home to something, but instead comes home to the same, lifeless, barren home every single day.
A little later, Jake says that he watches too many movies, that it passes the time to fill his brain with lies. This kind of relates to himself coming up with these fake memories to pass the time.
One line that comes back many times is that "things will get better." Maybe throughout Jake's life, he kept thinking that things would naturally work out in his favour, but before he knew it, he was old and never achieved the things he wanted to in life.
Moving on, Jake's parents are in no hurry to greet him, making me think that in reality, they always thought of Jake as an underachiever or a disappointment.
I think the basement represents a few things: He hides the things he's ashamed of in there. The janitors outfits, the paintings that never got him anywhere in life. Even the line "He's hiding in there" is like him saying his true self hides in there, too ashamed to even leave. Another thing is when the mother asks Lucy to go to the basement. I think in this scenario she represents the ideal version of Jake as a child. The real child Jake might have been scared to go down into the basement, but Lucy is not scared at all.
The inconsistencies with his parents ages could represent Jake trying to perfect these memories. Trying things out at different points in his life, but never finding that perfect moment because it was never meant to be. Even Lucy's career paths constantly change as Jake tries to work this into his imagination to see how much differently his parents might have reacted. His older self watches a romantic movie, he proceeds to insert this into his fantasy when Lucy gets a call from Yvonne, and even changes the whole story of how they met to be just like it was in the movie.
His mother mentions that she was proud when he received the diligence pin, but Jake himself was disappointed that he didn't get a better pin. I'm thinking his ambitions in life may have been too unrealistic. His parents mention that he wasn't as smart as the other kids and his wish for a better pin could relate to him hoping for a career in painting, physics, etc. and that the diligence pin (probably referencing him becoming a janitor) is as much as he can achieve in life. When we see Jake caring for his mother, he is wearing the diligence pin, which even looks like it has a slight glow, as if it's the only thing that would make his mother proud (this is too depressing).
When Lucy quotes the phrase "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions", this could be in relation to Jake. His thoughts are all made up of other people's thoughts and ideas rather than his own and that now it has gotten to the point where he is replacing aspects of his own memories with things from movies. Later on, during the drive home, Jake forms his own opinion about A Woman Under the Influence, but when he hears the opinion of someone who he knows is more intelligent in that field, he instantly thinks that his opinion must be wrong (something I think most of us do actually).
Now for Tulsey Town. I think it represents bad memories: "Brutal place, the land of Tulsey Town." The girls who laughed at him work there, the ostracized girl, who is like his younger self, works there. Tulsey Town itself is something from his childhood that he has held onto all the way up to his old age. Even the bad smell that the ostracized girl mentions could just be a metaphor for bad memories. His insistence on going there in the first place may have been him wanting to confront these bad memories and try to get rid of them, but ultimately, he becomes too cowardly to do so and then insists on leaving as soon as possible.
An alternative, and very dark theory, is that it could be the afterlife? The first thing I thought of when the girl mentioned that the bad smell wasn't varnish, was that it was a dead body or something. She even says that "you don't have to go forward... in time, you can stay here." Maybe the girls working there are ones that he killed. The ones who laughed at him, he killed because he was sensitive. The quiet girl, he killed because no one would realise or care, because she was a social outcast or because she reminded him too much of himself. Even early in the film when he seems to lack any care about the lambs who froze to death could relate to this. I hope that theory is wrong, but it's something else to consider.
If Tulsey Town does represent bad memories, then his desperation to get rid of the ice cream could be a metaphor for him wanting erase those memories once and for all because it has been "preying" on his mind his entire life.
When Jake says "sometimes I feel much younger than I actually am", I think he's talking from the perspective of his older self/real self, who wants to be back in his youth so he can change what his life ends up like. And Lucy saying "like a Coca-Cola commercial", is again relating to the fact that Jake's mind is so filled with stuff he sees on the television.
Then when Jake is finally about to kiss Lucy, he sees his older self watching on through a peep hole, as if it's impossible for him to alter his memories and that his older, actual self will always get in the way.
We finally get to Lucy entering the school. We see the bin completely filled with ice cream cups, as if Jake has went over this scenario in his head time and time again. When we finally hear the truth about what happened with Jake and Lucy that night in the bar, which, to me, is him accepting the truth. Janitor Jake then says "he's safe if he's here. It's safe in here. It's quiet." To me this tells us that the school is the only place Jake belongs.
Then we get to the dance scene. I think the dancer Jake is what his idyllic self is, the one who marries the woman of his dreams. But ultimately, the real Jake ends up killing his idyllic self, as if there was never a possibility of that being the real him.
So the janitor finishes his day and begins having a mental breakdown in his car. To me, this is his life ending. He mentioned that he always liked road trips, and so remembers that. He remembers his parents, however it is of them arguing, so that might be the only real memory of them he has. He remembers himself as a young adult. And he remembers the Tulsey Town advert, the song that always made him cry. At this point in the movie, I think Jake is dead. The pig leads him to the afterlife. The pig is apparently him, but I think the maggots represent all the bad memories he has and how they are constantly eating away at him, all the way up until his death.
Getting to the final scene, Jake recites the speech from A Beautiful Mind. As soon as the word 'delusional' is said the camera cuts to Lucy, pretty much solidifying the idea that she is just someone Jake saw at some point in his life, nothing more. Then there's the song:
"As I sit by myself, like a cobweb on a shelf, by myself, in a lonely room."
That is essentially his life. He works his regular job. He goes to his empty home, growing older and older by the day.
"And a dream starts a-dancin' in my head. And all the things that I wish fer turn out like I want them to be."
Through all this loneliness, he had no choice but to wander in his own mind, the only way he could be with other people.
"I'm awake in a lonely room. I ain't gonna dream of her arms no more. I ain't gonna leave her alone."
Maybe at some point in his life, he decided that he wanted this woman, but obsessively pursued her, not leaving her alone.
Then everything turns blue. My guess is based on the inclusion of the biblical quote early in the film. Apparently, within the Bible, blue represents heaven and thus, Jake has officially ascended to heaven!
When I first watched the film, I didn't think it was very depressing, which I instantly thought was off based on Kaufman's other films, but yes, now that I've analysed it, this is probably one of the most depressing films I've ever seen.
Idi i smotri (1985)
The best war film I've ever seen
This is perhaps the most horrific, gripping movie I have ever seen and the best war movie I've ever seen. It painfully displays the harsh reality of war and is not afraid to shy away from every detail.
This movie is not an easy watch but will keep you glued to the screen, even during the most disturbing parts.
It has been more than a day since I watched the film and still hasn't left my mind, which has to justify exactly how impactful this movie has been to me, even as someone who does not particularly enjoy the majority of war films.
To conclude, I definitely rank this among my top 10 movies of all time, although I most likely won't want to rewatch it any time soon.