The point of being alive is to have that one thing you're damn good at that no one else can do quite the same way you can, and to fucking NAIL IT and know that in that moment YOU ARE AWESOME And to look at your loved ones and see that joy reflected between you and them
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@FilmCritHulk points out one of the ways this movie nails it, where a wussier movie would just be schmaltz, is the unapologetic use of quick cuts and sensory overload We fully see his victory in the rapid-fire succession of everyone else reaction to it)1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
(The whole story is told this way -- nothing stays in one place as long as it should, it meanders, it wanders, it jumps back and forth through time and space, things overlap and carry over from scene to scene Talking and talking in one long string without punctuation marks)
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(They diagnose minds like this as broken Always moving *too fast*, speeding toward the horizon, that moves on four wheels and not two legs, that can't change direction without accelerating, that needs to travel down an open road without obstacles or it will shudder to a halt)
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(And in a world without roads, it would be A racecar trying to go where a racecar can't -- trying to hike through the woods like an animal bred for the rough terrain of nature -- is a sad, useless, expensive hunk of metal)
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(But maybe, just maybe If you can, somehow, scrape together the seed capital Give that car a pit crew, fill up its tires and its gas tank, clear a path for it down the smoothly paved track a racecar needs And watch it do the things ONLY a racecar can do Watch it fucking GO)
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This movie is a pretty great demonstration of "show, don't tell" and the power of form over content in cinema Talking about it at all in words sounds schmaltzy But the movie works because it is, in every way, in every shot and every cut and every frame, a demonstration
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In the last 15 years, NOT "balancing" earnest moments out with near-constant snark/lampshading in tentpole movies has basically become a rare act of courage, for fear of being seen as "cheesy". Off the top of my head, it's basically Speed Racer, John Carter, and Wonder Woman.
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And while I adore a lot of the MCU, they're definitely the biggest contributors to, and arguably the drivers of, that trend.
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This movie is absolutely a full scale assault on the ironic defenses most of us have built up against earnestness in film and it seems like people's opinions of it swing wildly based on how willing they are to succumb
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Hence, you know, the whole joke about how this is the best movie in the world when you're high
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Thanks for this full-throated defense of Speed Racer and the addition of layers of meaning to the movie business and, as I now see, just about every other business since they all rely on the passion of front line workers to generate profits for exploitative bosses.
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