NL
It's always a little bit sad when you realize you're not special. The Academy awards are supposed to be a celebration of creativity, but it's just another voting booth. A chance to affirm your allegiances and be a "good person". I tried watching The Brutalist last night, but I'm 90 minutes in and STILL NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. I know it's supposed to be about like immigrants and the American Dream and classism or whatever, but the only character I even remotely care about is his niece. If I have to watch one more minute of tortured silence punctuated by long takes of brutalist architecture I'm going to lose my mind. Everyone is saying Adrien Brody was so good though! And I guess he is, except his character has delivered maybe 100 words of actual dialogue. I miss movies where shit happens. Give me John Wick, The Martian, Mad Max. I watched Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on the plane and it was fantastic. And I'm pretty sure people were supposed to shit on that one. What the hell is going on? "I'm here to pretend to be somebody else and get paid obscene amounts of money for it. Actually, I'm better than you because it's ART. Please give me a shiny trophy so I can feel good about myself. " Maybe I'm just bitter because I'm 26 hours into writing this agreeableness post and it's still terrible. Or I'm tired. Or the world is ending and nothing matters. Anyways, I'm going to go eat ice cream and watch Mad Max now. See ya <3
*not me (yet)!