One Sentence Media Reviews
A unique adventure in literature; a startling philosophical investigation cloaked in sci-fi; a straightforward, unsurprising story that will somehow sneakily have you pondering deep questions years later… I guess what I appreciate most about Butler and this trilogy is just how different it all is, and how it never tries to be like anything else.
Compared to the impeccable Parasite, Bong Joon Ho creates a new film totally different in setting and style and yet totally similar in pace and wackiness, absolutely delightful and political, a true celebration of the average midwit dude, and yet maybe not meant to be read into too deeply.
Not really a movie designed for me, since I’m not a big fan of baseball or related endeavors, but this was a poignant look at a small slice of a small town in a big small moment, and as such it felt really real.
It’s a mediocre action movie and perfect for scrolling through if that’s what your brain requires (and it gets kinda macabre by the end in a cool practical effects way), and also another mass media example of ex-special forces troops becoming criminals.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.