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Wow, the precision of academic music vocabulary, ruthless judgement within the arts, and aural-visual performances is incredible. Paired with fantastically arrogant and selfish ruthlessness makes this conflicting to enjoy. Very well written, filmed, and performed. Quite a slow and boring film with random drama but simultaneously rich in so many ways. Please just grab your coffee, put your phone away, and just watch the dang movie. And such a perplexing story on human relationships, cancel culture (guilty till proven innocent), and anxiety. Just wish it pushed how music and the arts makes life more beautiful, but a film displaying arrogant selfishness and raising music to a higher place than that of humanity doesn’t merit a display of human beauty. It reminds me of a line I heard in a clip from The Menu along the lines of, “you cook with obsession, not love”. The humanity within the arts isn’t recognized by the protagonist until the very final chapter with watching of the VHS tape— mind you it is probably the most cliche part of the film, but maybe that just juxtaposes the abandonment of elitism within the arts with a simple and relatable philosophy of music. And ironically, the end of this 2.5 hour film felt so rushed that I truly believe this could realistically be a whole extended television series. The slow dullness would probably be more reasonably accepted if it were. But also the quick pace can be seen as representative of the feeling of urgency anxiety brings to our perception of time. Also, that cello soloist is 🥵 But at the same time scared me a bit and gave me the ick.