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i was just thinking today about how eddington and one battle both feel almost explicitly designed to sit inside the web of contradictions inherent to the way we talk about things online, both are representing a type of content that is contradictory to all sides of typical discourse enough that they somehow ascend the flattening that the platform internet seems to force onto any piece of art. i guess we can see this kind of thing in music too (thinking of jpegmafia’s work on all my heroes are cornballs as prime example)—would be curious if anyone has any other examples of this kind of thing

Some films are great due to the depth of discussion they’re able to provoke and they shouldn’t be confused with films that are superficially provocative. One Battle After Another, Eddington, The Substance and Sinners are all films in recent memory that have achieved this. At a certain point, you have to recognise that a piece of art’s ab…

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