sparked a lifelong obsession with maximalist media; one of the most powerful, beautiful, life-affirming movies ever; thank you wachowski girlies for making another perfect film
The high point of kinetic artificial nonsense that came out just as it was going out of favour with Avatar and the MCU. There are so many sick split-second visual ideas in this clip alone. I think this fits your prompt because it accepts its own commercialised aspects while using them to be narratively driven by the desire to bring down capital and find new ways of storytelling within its limitations.
”all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain”
the visuals, the lightning, the characters, the dialogues, the sound, the atmosphere, there’s nothing about this movie i don’t love
i loooove learning new bird calls and bird songs and seeing what little guys might be around if i’m in a different part of the country/world!
(eBird is essential too.. love my birds)
i know, i know!! i read it for the same reason as michelle zauner of japanese breakfast—to be annoying—but i really, really liked it!! i’m brave enough to admit it! it was so funny, surprisingly touching, and eerily prescient; worth reading despite being 10000 pages long and very 1996 at times
