Nolan at his finest. TRAILER BOOOOOOOOOONGGGGGGG!!!!!
8. The Social Network – David Fincher
This
is and is not the autobiography of every lonely sad internet boi in the
world. The story is tired and true
now. The sad boi was rejected once and
their fragile ego could not handle it.
Said sad boi attempted to burn down the world via the internet. In the case of Fincher’s film and biopic, Mark
Zuckerberg (played with coldly calculated distance by Jesse Eisenberg) actually
did.
7. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
A purely cinematic experience is what director Alfonso Cuarón has given us with Gravity. It is almost a disservice to everything Cuarón has built to recommend seeing it in anything less than IMAX. Maybe put your nose against your 65” TV. Maybe it may work.
6. Under the Skin/Cloud Atlas – Jonathon Glazer/Lana, Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer
The reason the Jonathon Glazer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski films were tied together was that they shared a similar theme of Identity. So much of the 2010s was about identity be it of a sexual, gender, political, social, or financial nature. Each of these films shows us those identities in such different and austere ways but when viewed together feel like one half of a whole conversation. Glazer’s shows us an alien (Scarlett Johansson) who preys upon men and their sexual lusting of her form. Tykwer & the Wachowski’s tell multiple stories of the same souls but in different locations both geographically and chronologically. Each ends with a very different hypothesis but fascinating and human all the same.
5. Upstream Color – Shane Carruth
A
puzzle wrapped in an enigma is how best to describe Upstream Color. Part Romance, Part Science Fiction, Part Mystery
all Shane Carruth. Carruth wrote, directed,
produced, edited and stars in this film which is essentially a dance of the
psychological and metaphysical between two broken souls (played by Carruth and
a heartbreakingly good Amy Seimetz).
Five years after its release the film still rattles the mind, heart, and
soul.
9. Inception – Christopher Nolan
Nolan at his finest. TRAILER BOOOOOOOOOONGGGGGGG!!!!!
8. The Social Network – David Fincher
This is and is not the autobiography of every lonely sad internet boi in the world. The story is tired and true now. The sad boi was rejected once and their fragile ego could not handle it. Said sad boi attempted to burn down the world via the internet. In the case of Fincher’s film and biopic, Mark Zuckerberg (played with coldly calculated distance by Jesse Eisenberg) actually did.
7. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
A purely cinematic experience is what director Alfonso Cuarón has given us with Gravity. It is almost a disservice to everything Cuarón has built to recommend seeing it in anything less than IMAX. Maybe put your nose against your 65” TV. Maybe it may work.
6. Under the Skin/Cloud Atlas – Jonathon Glazer/Lana, Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer
The reason the Jonathon Glazer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski films were tied together was that they shared a similar theme of Identity. So much of the 2010s was about identity be it of a sexual, gender, political, social, or financial nature. Each of these films shows us those identities in such different and austere ways but when viewed together feel like one half of a whole conversation. Glazer’s shows us an alien (Scarlett Johansson) who preys upon men and their sexual lusting of her form. Tykwer & the Wachowski’s tell multiple stories of the same souls but in different locations both geographically and chronologically. Each ends with a very different hypothesis but fascinating and human all the same.
5. Upstream Color – Shane Carruth
A puzzle wrapped in an enigma is how best to describe Upstream Color. Part Romance, Part Science Fiction, Part Mystery all Shane Carruth. Carruth wrote, directed, produced, edited and stars in this film which is essentially a dance of the psychological and metaphysical between two broken souls (played by Carruth and a heartbreakingly good Amy Seimetz). Five years after its release the film still rattles the mind, heart, and soul.
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