Oh. All of a sudden i'm glad my lazy ass left the house a few minutes late.
Nocturnal Animals -Tom Ford film starring Amy Adams & Jake Gyllenhaal
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Oh. All of a sudden i'm glad my lazy ass left the house a few minutes late.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Kinda pretentious
That awkward ass opening. Sitting there like
That awkward ass opening. Sitting there like
Kilgore Trout
Banned
damn he game a long way from creative director of ysl
I guess the gay hollywood mafia is real
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Still gonna watch
FORD IS GOAT
I guess the gay hollywood mafia is real
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Still gonna watch
FORD IS GOAT
@HHR might like it as much as I do since he loves noir.
I'm hopeful...still not playing around here though
dude is seriously talentedtom ford da gawd
a single man one of the goat films
Disgustya Stallone
Man Who Owns 2 Microwaves
i read somewhere the dude sleeps like 3-4 hours a night because he is constantly working on different sh*t
true renaissance man
The_Third_Man
Superstar
My favorite movie of 2016
TF is a genius
TF is a genius
:Truth:you dirt road nikkas still waiting on this?
feels good to live in the GOAT city
I saw it weeks ago which you'd know if you actually read.
I'm talking for the other brehs
NobodyReally
Superstar
This was really interesting. I don't always enjoy story within story movies, but this was really good. Still not quite sure what to think about some of it though. I'm torn about what it all means. I think I get the basic idea-
There seemed to be a lot of parallels between the two stories and things within each that may have been symbolic for other things, but it's not always clear for what. For instance,
It's the kind of movie that will have you rethinking different parts and what they may have meant in retrospect. I definitely want to see it again to see if I experience certain scenes in a new way now that I know what the main story was about.
Jake, Amy, and definitely Michael Shannon acted their asses off. The dialogue was really great, very realistic.
I think in terms of direction and the way this movie was put together, people are either gonna be into it or hate it. Ford doesn't really spell out everything, and I think that may frustrate people. I loved it though.
Overall, I'd give this a 8.5 out of 10, only because I'm not sure if moving back and forth between the story within the story always worked. But I will be watching this one again.
that the smaller 'Nocturnal Animals' story written by her ex husband is a sort of allegory of their relationship and her killing of their unborn child and the future of their family. At least I think that's what that story represents. It also seems to be a form of revenge, her ex husband showing her that he can write something compelling and brilliant. If only she had been patient and waited and supported him. And his timing for delivering the book is very on the nose- with her marriage on the rocks and her discontent with her life. It's almost as if he wrote that story and just waited for her life to fall apart so he could deliver it at the right moment. Him standing her up at the end was like the perfect clap back.
There seemed to be a lot of parallels between the two stories and things within each that may have been symbolic for other things, but it's not always clear for what. For instance,
The guy in the smaller story accidentally killing himself at the end - was that symbolic of her ex husband figuratively killing the last of piece of himself that loved her by telling this story or standing her up? What about the fat women in her art, what did they symbolize? The ugliness of our naked truth? Our grotesque gluttony of the material world? And who did Michael Shannon's character represent for her ex husband? Or maybe none of these things represented anything at all. Perhaps it was just all a part of their story, their lives.
It's the kind of movie that will have you rethinking different parts and what they may have meant in retrospect. I definitely want to see it again to see if I experience certain scenes in a new way now that I know what the main story was about.
Jake, Amy, and definitely Michael Shannon acted their asses off. The dialogue was really great, very realistic.
I think in terms of direction and the way this movie was put together, people are either gonna be into it or hate it. Ford doesn't really spell out everything, and I think that may frustrate people. I loved it though.
Overall, I'd give this a 8.5 out of 10, only because I'm not sure if moving back and forth between the story within the story always worked. But I will be watching this one again.
StickStickly
Superstar
this looks good. gyllenhaal has really been bring his A game to acting the past few years.
This was a laughably bad movie, with some very dope set designs, fashion, and beautiful shots, you can see the fashion influence of course, also a strong Amy Adams performance. Jake does what he can with a horribly written caricature, in increasingly preposterous situations. It reminds me of Refn's latest works, beautiful and hollow, but Refn still has an edge and a humor in his work, that eludes Ford here. A more horror type satire like 'The Neon Demon' would be perfect for him. That last sequence with Amy Adams is the movies best, fittingly it plays like a Dior ad or something, but there was great music, great acting, great set design and sequencing.
Amy Adams at dropping the book after every chapter "oh the horror"
at most of the lines "Why do you associate yourself with that man....who kills people"? Jake: "You kill people"
The beyond cliched sequences of Jake Gllyenhall in a cowboy esque outfit in every scene in New York, "You have to fight for your love". We get he's from Texas, doesn't need to be in a fukking sheep skin jacket in one scene and a Western button down the next.
The unexplained scene of her at the abortion clinic, where Jake appears for no real reason, other then a dramatic reveal.
Amy Adams at dropping the book after every chapter "oh the horror" at most of the lines "Why do you associate yourself with that man....who kills people"? Jake: "You kill people"The beyond cliched sequences of Jake Gllyenhall in a cowboy esque outfit in every scene in New York, "You have to fight for your love". We get he's from Texas, doesn't need to be in a fukking sheep skin jacket in one scene and a Western button down the next.
The unexplained scene of her at the abortion clinic, where Jake appears for no real reason, other then a dramatic reveal.
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