Para-bureaucrat. Infrastructure respecter. Multicultural democracy enjoyer. 🆓🇵🇸. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Liked the core metaphor, but felt like we kinda missed out on really driving it home or exploring the themes of hauntology in any really meaningful way
forgot to post:
watched yesterday
Falls short of being a serviceable thriller on account of some really middle of the road filmmaking and core structural weaknesses/internalized misogyny
An incredible cast of character actors. Tom Cruise is the most athletic lawyer alive.
Supremely tactile movie-making. A vision of a lost era of entertainment for adults - but maybe no less fantastical than superheroes and dragons
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Deep lore: the Firm was the first piece of adult fiction I read as a kid and really informed so much of my taste going forward. Excited to finally see the film adaptation
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Deep lore: the Firm was the first piece of adult fiction I read as a kid and really informed so much of my taste going forward. Excited to finally see the film adaptation