Aren't the musical features essential to the movie? Maddy mentions that every episode of the Pink Opaque includes two musical acts. The movie is a giant Pink Opaque episode...
Just saw it today. Definitely interpreted the movie as a Queer wake-up call to take the risk to embrace oneself, along with those we're lucky to call chosen family. But as the saying goes, which was etched in chalk in one scene, "there is still time"
the reason you felt that years are suddenly gone watching the transitions is because the parts of the film represent TV show seasons in the "real world", which was actuality the show or fake reality representation in episodic format. Notice how the first season's main character was recast for the second and third seasons. The real world was actually the TV show all along.
I really hope this film will reach a larger audience, especially among music lovers. This soundtrack lineup is literally insane and I’m so excited to see the movie just based on that! Alex G’s soundtrack for World Fair already gave it some steam so this with SO MANY amazing artists making an appearance + exclusive songs is gonna propel it fs.
thanks for the review, I'm on the edge of my seat with excitement for this re. the 5 oclock shadow thing: a lot of transphobes try to "clock" us by looking for a 5 o clock shadow, there's that idea that we're men trying to "deceive" people, and even that we're gross adults pretending to be pretty teens could this be a feature, not a bug?
Great recap! How’s Week 1 been in terms of securing tickets to screenings you’re REALLY looking to see? Not sure if you’re doing Passes, Individual Tickets (when available) or Waitlisting it; but I’ve heard quite a bit of noise about how busy/oversold all the big screenings have been. Curious if there’s any merit to that noise since I’ll be there next week Wed-Sun (wk 2).
It’s been mostly ok! There are a couple tough tickets but that’s one of the reasons we like to stay for the full 10 days and make sure we catch it all. As far as oversold screenings, there have been a few but that doesn’t tend to be an issue in the back half because there’s a lot fewer festival attendees. You shouldn’t worry.
Its a shame that most of these indie festival films will go unnoticed by audiences outside of the festival circuit and likely never be seen or heard of again to the point of obscurity. Even the few that land distribution.
I’m not dogging the movie but it isn’t clear what they are trying to say in this movie. If you read other reviews and interpretations m. Maybe you will see what they are going for but to say it’s clear the movie isn’t. I would love to get a hot take after people initially see it and I guarantee without reading other people’s takes you will be juggling a few conclusions.
I mean, I’m sure it isn’t clear for some, and being somewhat familiar with the filmmaker and seeing their previous film maybe informed our opinions on this one, but this is our review after the Sundance premiere, before it was out publicly, and it’s pretty similar to what we said to each other right outside the movie theater. 🤷🏻♂️
Aren't the musical features essential to the movie? Maddy mentions that every episode of the Pink Opaque includes two musical acts. The movie is a giant Pink Opaque episode...
YOOOOOOO I DIDNT EVEN REALISE THAT
Just saw it today. Definitely interpreted the movie as a Queer wake-up call to take the risk to embrace oneself, along with those we're lucky to call chosen family. But as the saying goes, which was etched in chalk in one scene, "there is still time"
100%, but it works really well even without that arc
the reason you felt that years are suddenly gone watching the transitions is because the parts of the film represent TV show seasons in the "real world", which was actuality the show or fake reality representation in episodic format. Notice how the first season's main character was recast for the second and third seasons. The real world was actually the TV show all along.
World's Fair and now this. I'm pretty sure the director is into ASMR big time. One of us! One of us!
I really hope this film will reach a larger audience, especially among music lovers. This soundtrack lineup is literally insane and I’m so excited to see the movie just based on that! Alex G’s soundtrack for World Fair already gave it some steam so this with SO MANY amazing artists making an appearance + exclusive songs is gonna propel it fs.
thanks for the review, I'm on the edge of my seat with excitement for this
re. the 5 oclock shadow thing: a lot of transphobes try to "clock" us by looking for a 5 o clock shadow, there's that idea that we're men trying to "deceive" people, and even that we're gross adults pretending to be pretty teens
could this be a feature, not a bug?
I really don’t think it’s a feature, but that’s definitely an interesting thought!
I’m excited for more 90s and early 00s nostalgia stuff.
Great recap! How’s Week 1 been in terms of securing tickets to screenings you’re REALLY looking to see?
Not sure if you’re doing Passes, Individual Tickets (when available) or Waitlisting it; but I’ve heard quite a bit of noise about how busy/oversold all the big screenings have been. Curious if there’s any merit to that noise since I’ll be there next week Wed-Sun (wk 2).
It’s been mostly ok! There are a couple tough tickets but that’s one of the reasons we like to stay for the full 10 days and make sure we catch it all.
As far as oversold screenings, there have been a few but that doesn’t tend to be an issue in the back half because there’s a lot fewer festival attendees. You shouldn’t worry.
Its a shame that most of these indie festival films will go unnoticed by audiences outside of the festival circuit and likely never be seen or heard of again to the point of obscurity. Even the few that land distribution.
We’re going in the right direction though. Or at least a24 is.
Art is friends with Amanda and doesn't know The L-Word? SHAME.
I’m not dogging the movie but it isn’t clear what they are trying to say in this movie. If you read other reviews and interpretations m. Maybe you will see what they are going for but to say it’s clear the movie isn’t. I would love to get a hot take after people initially see it and I guarantee without reading other people’s takes you will be juggling a few conclusions.
I mean, I’m sure it isn’t clear for some, and being somewhat familiar with the filmmaker and seeing their previous film maybe informed our opinions on this one, but this is our review after the Sundance premiere, before it was out publicly, and it’s pretty similar to what we said to each other right outside the movie theater. 🤷🏻♂️
Besides the soundtrack, it was ok