Anonymous
8/23/2025, 11:03:20 PM
No.213947393
>Little Buddha is peak Bertolucci, which is to say, peak cinema, opulent and awesome, with camera movement that follows thought so that our reception of information provides the joy of learning.
>That’s the idea that Bertolucci inherited from his mentors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard, who found the politics of cinema in its narrative structure and ideology. That’s how Italian-Marxist Bertolucci observed Buddhism, as a rationalist alternative to Italian Catholicism.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 10:10:37 AM
No.213578596
>>213567829
Has our King weighed in on this yet?
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 9:41:42 PM
No.213085555
>Martin Scorsese gives a lesson in reading pop culture through his defense of Ari Aster’s Eddington, an apocalyptic satire about post-Covid America. Speaking to the New York Times, Scorsese inadvertently nails what’s wrong with this frantic political spasm.
>Scorsese implies that Covid left Americans aggrieved, exclaiming that the film “externalizes the emotional violence” that’s behind the physical brutality, yet he never specifies how the Covid-apocalypse intensified the political enmity that had already descended upon the country (via the duplicity of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx in Operation Warp Speed). Fact is, Eddington inadequately accounts for the tyranny that Americans felt during Covid, enforced by one political side and suffered by the other, that pushed countless fragile sensibilities over the edge.
>Fanboy Scorsese must know that a truly expressive, culturally reflective film is never merely topical. (Were that the case, Scorsese’s own crazy, Aster-esque grand guignol Shutter Island would be the ultimate World War II satire.) Eddington depicts the Covid experience through broad topical indices. Many recognizable details of posters, bumper stickers, cellphones, social media obsession, and partisan mindsets recreate a panicky atmosphere, pointing to it as the source of social division. A constant background noise of media commentary conveys an unconscious psychic influence (something Zack Snyder did better in Man of Steel). Yet by avoiding 2020’s questionable election, Aster gets the essential national betrayal disastrously wrong.
