From one year ago today. I like the writing.
1/10/20: 1917, Schitt’s Creek and Joyce Carol Oates — Craft Services
I’ll pass on that old-time religion.
The world dialed up 1917, Schitt’s Creek and Joyce Carol Oates for me in the last twenty-four hours. I emerged with a feeling of not-so-smug superiority.
These people go to a lot of trouble to say what is on their minds.
1917: Sam Mendes directed this museum diorama trying to pass itself off as a movie. I am sure that Sam Mendes has a very neat apartment. I am also sure that he never stepped beyond a proscribed line.
Mendes brings a fastidious eye to the fog of war. He doesn’t do chaos. Each person place and thing in this World War One story is arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Mendes brings his mastery of scenic composition to a decomposing world.
1917 is a reassuring lie. Carnage doesn’t have to be gross…
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