con

a bit long and dragged about 2 hrs in but if there's any i'll be sitting through is de niro and scorcese working magic like always

What a fortuitous day! It's so hot in my college dorm, 85 American with no AC. Such beauty in the way that the whole film is shot, and with minimal cuts, you really feel almost as if you're the 13th juror at the table, moving around just as they did, always standing and moving up to blend external movement with the internal movement perspective of the camera. I audibly said, " Wow, " when at 9-3 Fonda makes eye contact with the camera (again, as if the 13th juror) and asks us a simple question, "So why do you still think he's guilty?" With the blatant themes of class, prejudice, race, and overall disposition of kindness, I think he truly is asking us on what grounds we judge others. What in our minds do we give reason to quite literally jump to conclusions in this case, and how do we live with that decision? I feel that the setting can easily be applied outside of a jury, in saying that if we don't have an absolute reason, there's no grounds to harbor ill will towards another and to hold this ability for second thought as a privilege of being human and understanding the flaws of morality and mortality.

With Safdie's moves I tend not to survive the tension very well, and my aversion to that I note is a personal experience, but hey, watcha know this is my personal review I agree with all the sentiments of the likeable sociopath character and the supporting performances being great I just think the plot had diluted that experience for me for a bit (I thought he was being chased by the cops the whole movie until he got to japan lol I was like there's no way his name isn't on a wanted list... right?) and so that really had me questioning the rest of the movie subsequently I was disappointed that Timmy didn't have a New York accent, BUT outside of that, if he won best actor, I wouldn't bat an eye for someone who was very deserving and brought so much "life" to the role. The character's ambition and personal conviction oozed through the screen and is a credit to the unique ability of Chalamet and his unibrow

I love how I genuinely didn't realize it was Shakespeare himself until spoken clearly lol. There's definitely some unclear pacing and direction of the story, but I put that equally at my fault and the film's. I was pretty bored halfway through and found myself wanting more from the film. Grief as a portrayal was amazing, but grief as an emotion has never been something I handle or empathize with, as I find I've handled instances of it in my own life pretty uniquely. Because of that, I think I find a sort of disconnect with dramas such as these at times, and that's okay. —I got chills at the ending scene, and all the performances are, you guessed it... top tier.