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Old 12-02-2016, 12:59 AM   #18195 (permalink)
Frownland
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I saw it on a whim after hitting the bars and passed out drunk halfway through. I'm pretty upset about that but I'm going to be pirating it soon, probably tonight.
Absolutely floored. Gripping and really amazing on all fronts: cinematography, rounded characters, amazing and well paced plot, the damn works all up in this bitch. Definitely shouldn't have poured so much vodka in my soda so that I could have seen it on the big screen instead of a shaky cellphone video of the big screen, but whatever. 9/10 (will likely increase on my next full length viewing when I show this to friends)

Spoiler for the deets:
When Louise started to experience time in a nonlinear fashion I was immediately was reminded of Slaughterhouse Five and loved how they depicted that idea, of experiencing time as a whole instead of a cross-section. The central misunderstanding around the weapon/gift message was a goddamned brilliant exploration of humanity that in hindsight I should have picked up on during the kangaroo anecdote given that it was a part that I remembered well from my first viewing. People mentioning romance did kind of spoil the ending for me because what else was going to happen? Still, I thought that the parts with Hannah were flashbacks until she went into the shell with Costello I think? Or was it Abbot? The one that didn't die.
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