Penelope

Nothing will ever cultivate a vibe like this. The dim warm lighting makes my stomach hurt. James McAvoy looking the way he does here. The music. Sigur Ros at the end. The way everything is so red and green and yet not giving Christmas at all. Also how this was DELIBERATELY made to have an ambiguous place and time. It’s some sort of hybrid of America and the U.K.? The newspaper at one point just reads “TAXES RISE. Government introduces new taxes”. It’s perfect. I watched the extended cut (there is a Penelope extended cut and I’m the only person alive who looked for it) and it seems to just be all the things they had to cut in the U.S. so this wouldn’t get a PG-13 rating. It’s bizarre. Penelope goes to a sex shop. They all swear. There’s two canonical suicides. Peter Dinklage gives a guy the finger. Worth every penny BTW