A very flawed film—it won’t sniff my top 10 of 2019 and I may move it out of the archives with a rewatch but for now I’m putting it in by the skin of its teeth—mainly because of the admirable dialogue—Dan Gilroy has created a pretty funny, insulated world with a completely unique—purposefully pretentious—vernacular. It reminds me of much of the Coen brothers work and it flies at you so I’m excited to check out again
Imaginative opening credits
Starbucks again and again as a criticism and visual motif
Countless times I was so pleasantly amused with the dialogue- Gyllenhaal’s character saying “I’m ensorssled”
These characters are largely soulless—vipers
Gyllenhaal’s character- “Morf”- great name- perfection. “This couch is too small for these high ceilings—it’s swimming in here”
Literally killed by art probably could have been done more imaginatively
There’s no outside perspective here which I love
The oxymoronic title
In his short three film oeuvre Gilroy has created a pretty consistent voice: eccentrics—I did not think Roman J. Israel, Esq was up to snuff- but this and, by far his best, 2014’s Nightcrawler have the darker- more cynical take
You have repeated “Starbucks again and again as a criticism and visual motif” twice here.
@Malith- Thank you- fixed
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