Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says the that even that has got to good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Power of the Dog Movie Score Suite - Jonny Greenwood (2021)
I couldn't even get through the first half of the movie, which is truly awful. It's got the right visuals, but beneath them lies pure shit. Jane Campion is a great filmmaker, but she's slid off the road and into the ditch with The Power of the Dog. Even if I watched the balance of the film and found it to me good, it would be forever marred by the rest. This film borrows from Paul Thomas Anderson's, "There Will be Blood," but does little else. And that's just the first quarter of the film. It might have been entitled, "The Power of the Feminist Solidarity Movement." Campion won the high prize for this shit. John Campion would not have been nominated. Pure F