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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
this and kenneth anger's fireworks (1947) are my 2 favorite movies whose plots are spurred into motion by erotic reveries about naval officers
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The Substance 2024
Feel the need to circle back and cape for this upon rewatch, especially given the predictably moralizing, dour tone of the backlash reviews out there, which misunderstand the movie so completely it's almost impressive.
It's no secret that The Substance is a satirical riff on Gothic horror: monsters, hybrids, doubles/Doppelgangers, houses with secret chambers, giant portraits, decadence, flirtations with death, oozing flesh, strange substances, sexual deviance. The Gothic text that came most insistently to mind the first time around was…
