With some movies it’s hard to analyze why they worked for you, but in this case it probably helped that i went in completely cold.
Had i known about the prison setting beforehand, i would have probably skipped it. I was mainly drawn in by Rahim’s performance and was perfectly fine with just watching a movie about this type of character trying to survive in a prison environment. The fact that his development goes beyond mere survival and eventually leads to change of setting was again a complete surprise and gave the film some momentum in spite of the excessive running time.
I searched and couldn’t find it. Funny story, the Alien Covenant podcast didn’t show up in my Android podcast player . . . and Tom even mentioned it on there.
EDIT: Ah, yes, now that I’m looking more closely, of course that’s right. I can’t believe I didn’t get it from the 20:20! I knew she looked familiar and that blue flame is a dead giveaway. I love that movie so much.
You got it! The other Christine Chubbuck movie is sooooo bad. Like, offensively so. It’s just a bunch of overbearingly angsty dithering by an actress supposedly playing Chubbuck. The supposedly heavy ending is laughable.
But then there’s Rebecca Hall’s flat-out brilliant performance in Christine. She’s amazing. It’s the sort of performance women rarely get to do. I think it’s way better than, say, Charlize Theron in Monster for how much she humanizes Chubbuck, for how she inhabits and expresses such a sad, awkward place, with some stunning physicality. Her demeanor, the puppet stuff, her outbursts and frustration.
You just miss her face in this frame, but like the newsroom set in the 40:40, it’s an example of a lot of great period hardware.
Here’s Rebecca Hall, the other superhot chick from Vicky Christina Barcelona, rendering herself almost unrecognizable by the way she holds what’s intended to be a smile.
