Harri Turner

A brilliant character study disguised as a thriller. The chemistry between Cruise and Foxx is so good here too, it makes you forget that one is holding the other at gunpoint. I love particularly the enigma that is Vincent. Hints are dropped about his past and how he became the man he did, but the film still leaves you pondering plenty which I love. At its core I think it all boils down to a really impressive balancing act between tense action set pieces and a philosophical discourse on life, purpose and responsibility. Bet you forgot Jason Statham was in it too lol.

The glaze is insane 😭 What a prick

Despite enjoying Oppenheimer a lot on first watch and finding it fascinating and riveting stuff, there’s always been a problem I couldn’t quite determine that prevented me from labelling it a masterpiece. Upon rewatch it becomes glaringly clear that the flaw is the framing. The final third becomes fixated on how Strauss foiled Oppenheimer’s attempts to make up for the bomb and McCarthyism and yadda yadda. This is simply not the film I wanted to see. I genuinely believe the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the single most heinous single act in human history. I wanted to see a film that crushes Oppenheimer, that reckons with the existential evil of the bomb in a much more creative way than the film did. Oppenheimer wasn’t a man worthy of the sympathy the film wants to grant him, and if it wanted to pity him it should have done so in a much more creative way. The film becomes a courtroom drama where I feel it could’ve done something much bolder and psychological, which it teases at parts. It becomes hard to follow, introduces way too many unnecessary characters and leans on Downey’s performance wayyy too much, even though his performance is certainly not as good as the academy thought it was. “Can you give us scorned Robert??” LIKE WE GET IT!  TLDR: it could and should’ve been cosmic but ends up stale

The cat in the hat is canonically Jewish