coast to coast
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I watched Terry Gilliam's Brazil I think from a recommendation on this thread. I thought it looked and sounded amazing. I always love those bonkers dystopian versions of the future with intentionally bad approximations of what technology will do to people and the hand-made special effects. I thought the second half of the film dragged with a few too many chases and dream sequences and shit, but having read stuff and thought about it, it is kinda vital so maybe I should shut up on that point. The scene where he joins Information Retrieval is hilarious! Oh and the music is deadly too.
The day before I watched this because I read about it after watching Greenberg - Greta Gerwig (horn?) is apparently queen of the mumblecore genre of film. It was alright. Low budget and mumbling-a-plenty and humour about being an struggling actor in a vaguely Swingers-ish way with an interesting dynamic between the characters. But nowhere near as good as Swingers.