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theodoradove · 2 years ago

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Must a movie be good? Can it not simply be about solitude and love and academia and narrative? And Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba telling each other stories in a hotel room? And have a credit for octopus wranglers?

#so i finally saw #three thousand years of longing #which is not a good film per se #but is a film designed to hit me right in the intellectual id #despite the orientalism #and the fatphobia #and the cinematic assumption that academic conference keynotes are basically ted talks #it does not transcend its 1990s roots #and yet it still has its attractions #namely narratologist tilda hearing the life story of djinn idris and interjecting with 'oh yes that's a common trope that never ends well'#george miller #as byatt #tilda swinton #idris elba

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