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Something in the Dirt, 2022, dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead
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Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorehead, 2022)
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PaleyFest 2024: "Loki" Red Carpet and Panel
The Loki panel at PaleyFest. Photo by Angie Fiedler Sutton.
On April 13, 2024, PaleyFest celebrated Loki with a showing of the season 2 finale episode and a panel with some of the cast and crew. I managed to snag a few minutes with writer Eric Martin and directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead.
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As Marvel reportedly prepares to revamp its approach to television programming, “Loki” remains the only one of the nine series to get a second season. But, according to executive producer Kevin Wright, there wasn’t pressure in that fact — it was more like a responsibility.
“I could see how you could go that way. I think we found it as really freeing and exciting,” Wright told TheWrap. “Because it was like, we’re getting it because people liked it, and they were excited, and they’re super stoked. And also, because we end on the cliffhanger we end on, it would be cruel to not come back and pay that off.”
That said, Wright notes that he and his team made a concerted effort not to take fan enthusiasm for granted when crafting these six episodes.
“I think, for the team, there was a seriousness in the undertaking of it though, of: people liked it, we probably can’t just come back and play the hits and try to recapture the magic,” he explained. “Because that wouldn’t be fulfilling, even if we succeeded at it.”
He continued, “And so I think it was like, we established the world, it was a crazy world about time travel, and multiverse, but people bought in and they liked that world. And they liked these characters. And so, for us, it was like, OK, we can like really dive in deeper to this now. And hopefully people will come along with us on that ride.”
That said, like most of the other Marvel TV shows, “Loki” had shifts in its creative team. As a result, Wright and Tom Hiddleston, who executive produces the series as well as stars in it, were tasked with making sure there was a smooth transition.
“Because Kate Herron left at the end of season one, she kind of handed the reins over and said ‘I told my story, you guys run with it,’” Wright said. “It left a little bit of like a ship for us.”
According to Wright, Hiddleston was invaluable in keeping that ship afloat and moving, and has been since the show went into development almost five years ago. Wright touted Hiddleston’s devotion to the show, joking that sharing an adjoining office with him was often “like Kramer bursting into Jerry’s apartment on ‘Seinfeld’” when Hiddleston would get an idea.
“He has always been a true driving force behind the scenes of this. He’s my true producing partner, which, I can’t oversell that,” Wright said. “Truly, he’s there in the writers room. He is there as we start shooting. On weekends, we’re going in, we’re having meetings about, like, adjusting scripts so that we can find ways to get more money, and move it to build different sets and he’s involved in all those conversations.”
He continued, “And because of the shift between seasons — Kate stepping away, [Michael] Waldron stepping away to go and take on more responsibility of other Marvel projects — he and I kind of had to pick up more slack and be the continuity as we added pieces to our team, with like Justin [Benson] and Aaron [Moorehead], and Isaac, [Bauman] our cinematographer coming in, and kind of building and elevating people who are from our season one team into higher positions.”
Wright argues that the show wouldn’t be “nearly as great as it is” without Hiddleston specifically producing it.
“You know he’s going to give everything on screen. But as soon as we’re not shooting, he’s behind the scenes, making all of this work,” Wright said.
At this point, it’s unclear whether “Loki” will get, or even really need a third season, but Marvel is reportedly focused on their approach to TV going forward.
“We’re trying to marry the Marvel culture with the traditional television culture,” Brad Winderbaum, Marvel’s head of streaming, television and animation told THR. “It comes down to, ‘How can we tell stories in television that honor what’s so great about the source material?’”
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I've been digesting the Loki season 2 finale and have a lot of conflicting thoughts. I'm hesitant to post here because I feel like I always end up upsetting people when I share my candid thoughts. But where else is my autistic ass gonna brain fart this shit? I feel an overwhelming need to share my love of fandom with people but it's not something I can often indulge in in real life. So here goes, in no particular order.
I ended up having to mute a particular tag here. I firmly believe that everyone has a right to ship what they want. But it was difficult for me to find posts that were just about the show or character. It seemed like every post was about that particular ship. FWIW, I don't have a particular canon ship regarding Loki. I'm ecstatic that he's bisexual but other than that he is not a character that I feel needs romance. In my fanfic I do ship him with Darcy. I'm sad they never got to meet onscreen. But not because I think they would fall in love. I just think they'd be really funny together.
Anyway, that finale. I am a fan and reader of the comics though if you quizzed me I don't know how well I would score. So my thoughts are mostly around the MCU plus a bit about Norse mythology.
I liked season 1 better than season 2. Season 1 had a very cohesive narrative both visually and with the story. For me, there was not a disappointing episode in season 1. I think that was in large part due to Kate Herron's passion for Loki and the amount of thought and research and hands on work she did for that season.
As much as I love Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, I think their chaotic style - combined with changes in the writers' room- led to a disjointed season 2. Some episodes were great. Others felt like they dragged.
Here are some of my chief complaints/disappointments overall of the finale and season:
Season 1 built up this romance between Loki and Sylvie as though it were a key focal point and then it pretty much got dropped in the second season. I don't ship them but I would have appreciated at least one realistic conversation between them about how he felt. Or even a conversation with someone else about how he felt. It just seemed like the whole thing was sort of abandoned? I know he looked for her and cried a bit but it was all very vague.
The crying. He seemed to cry a lot this season? And of course we do need to see more men crying onscreen but it felt like a little too much. Kind of out of character. The opposite of rage isn't crying. So if they were trying to show growth by having him cry a lot it just didn't hit that way for me.
It honestly felt like it ended on a low note. I don't just mean for Loki. Everyone seemed kind of sad and unhappy. And I know it's not a show about happiness but I guess for me there's just so much bad in the real world right now that I needed to see a message of hope. I needed Mobius on a jet ski. I needed Sylvie doing something nice for herself. I needed the people at the TVA to do whatever would be fulfilling for them.
And honestly? I needed to see Thor and Loki together even if it was just quickly. Loki had the power to go anywhere and any when and not once in all of that did he go see his brother to say a proper goodbye? Or even to his mother for that matter? I understand he loved his friends at the TVA and that's a good thing but it felt like everyone else in his life was forgotten. He never even made mention of them.
All that being said, I LOVED seeing Loki come into his power. Though it's interesting that both he and Thor only truly came into their powers after losing everything. Which leads us back to the sadness of the ending. I'm glad they didn't kill Loki. And I'm glad they didn't kill Sylvie. But I'm sad that Loki is stuck doing the one thing he came to fear most: living life alone. He has not had one single moment of happiness in this arc and I hate that.
In a way, his ending is reflective of the Norse mythos. True, he's not bound by a snake and being tortured by venom. But he is essentially trapped. And were he to let go then all the worlds would end.
So what does the future hold? I'm not sure. I think we've seen the completion of Hiddleston's arc as Loki. He might pop up here and there again but doubtful as the main Loki. I'm guessing we'll see either kid Loki or Young Avengers Loki. Personally, I'd love to see Agent of Asgard Loki. Whoever it is, they will have some big shoes to fill.
So these are just some of my thoughts. Not gospel. Just one person's feelings about the show. I will say, ironically, I do feel inspired to write which is something I haven't done in a while. Ironic because of him becoming the God of Stories. Though I gotta admit, the way he kind of sneered at Ouroboros for being a writer stung!
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My Favorite Films Of 2022 Part 5
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Gertrude Stein (Writerism)
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Woodrow Wilson Day
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Air Force (Film; 1943)
Amapola, by Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (Song; 1941)
Birds of a Feather (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1931)
Boys on the Side (Film; 1995)
Canned Feud (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Chilly Con Carmen (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Chronicle (Film; 2012)
Dead Man’s Curve (TV movie; 1978)
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther (Memoir; 1949)
Earthling, by David Bowie (Album; 1997)
Earwig and the Witch (Animated Film; 2021)
Fun, Fun, Fun, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)
Hanna (TV Series; 2019)
The IT Crowd (UK TV Series; 2006)
Jane Eyre (Film; 1944)
La Dolce Vita (Film; 1960)
Norman Normal (WB Cartoon; 1968)
Rock You Like a Hurricane, by the Scorpions (Song; 1984)
Roman Carnival, by Hector Berlioz (Overture; 1844)
Santa Clarita Diet (TV Series; 2017)
Semiramide, Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1823)
Shanghai Knights (Film; 2003)
Society Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1939)
The Space Between Us (Film; 2017)
Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry; 1971)
What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (Documentary Film; 2006)
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Blas, Olivia, Óscar (Spain)
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Booty Pic Day
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Commemoration of the Batepá Massacre (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Communist Party Foundation Day (Vietnam)
Cow Day (French Republic)
Day of Finnish Architecture and Design (Finland)
Day of the Virgin of Suyapa (Honduras)
Desmond Tutu Day
Doggy Date Night
The Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean)
Elmo’s Day
Endangered Species Act Day
Feed the Birds Day
Four Chaplains Day
Halfway Point of Winter
Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
International Golden Retriever Day
International Lawyers Day
International Straw Free Day
John Lewis Day (Alabama)
Liberation of the Battle of Manila Day
Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Meaka Bochea Day (Cambodia)
National Cordova Ice Worm Day
National Doggy Date Night
National Honey Badger Day
National Missing Persons Day
National Patient Recognition Day
National Trevor Day
National Wedding Ring Day
National Women Physicians Day
National Women’s Heart Day
Nuestra Señora de Suyapa (Festival of the Virgin of Suyapa; Honduras)
Number Day
Take a Cruise Day
Veteran’s Day (Thailand)
Veterinary Pharmacists Day
Wedding Ring Day
World Free Love Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Carrot Cake Day
National Carrot Day
1st Saturday in February
Barber Day [1st Saturday]
Burning the Hom Strom (Graubünden, Switzerland) [1st Saturday]
Global Chaplains Day [1st Saturday]
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day [1st Saturday]
International Pisco Sour Day [1st Saturday]
Lace Day [1st Saturday]
National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]
Pork Rind Appreciation Day [1st Saturday]
Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]
South African National Beer Day (South Africa) [1st Saturday]
Take Your Child to the Library Day [1st Saturday]
Independence & Related Days
Danielland (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Illinois Territory Day (Illinois; 1818)
Keep Watch (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Liberation Movement Day (Angola)
Festivals Beginning February 3, 2024
Arizona Renaissance Festival (Apache Junction, Arizona) [thru 3.31]
Carnival Brasiliero (Austin, Texas)
Carnival of Viereggio (Viereggio, Italy) [thru 2.24]
Carolina Chocolate Festival (Moorehead City, North Carolina) [thru 2.4]
Downtown Gadsen Chili Cook-Off (Gadsen, Alabama)
Florida Renaissance Fair (Deerfield Beach, Florida) [thru 3.24]
Hudson Valley Wingfest (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Kurentovanje Carnival (Ptuj, Slovenia) [thru 2.13]
Melodifestivalen (Malmö, Sweden)
Northwest Briefest (Chicago, Illinois)
South Florida Garlic Festival (Wellington, Florida) [thru 2.4]
Temecula Valley Barrel Tasting (Temecula, California) [thru 2.4]
Yukon Quest (Whitehorse, Yukon)
Feast Days
Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Ansgar, Archbishop (a.k.a. Anskar; Christian; Saint) [Denmark]
Auscharius (Christian; Saint)
Berlindis of Meerbeke (Christian; Saint)
Blaise (Christian; Saint) [Blessing of Throats]
Blessing of Throats Day (St. Blaise’s Day); Everyday Wicca)
Build a Relationship with Brigid Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Celsa and Nona (Christian; Saints)
Claudine Thévenet (Christian; Saint)
Day of Remembrance for Oleg the Prophet (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Dom Justo Takayama (Christian; Saint) [Japan, Philippines]
Ewok Day (Pastafarian)
Festival of Sulis Minerva (Pagan)
Fiesta de San Blas (Protector of the Harvest; Puerto Rico)
Fukuju no mai (Jimai; Dance of the Seven Gods of Fortune; Japan)
Gaelic Lullaby Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Gertrude Stein (Writerism)
Gillian Ayres (Artology)
Hadelin (Christian; Saint)
Henning Mankell (Writerism)
Hickety Pickety (Muppetism)
ia (Christian; Virgin)
James Michener (Writerism)
Laurence of Canterbury, Srchbishop (Christian; Saint)
Laurence of Spoleto, Bishop (Christian; Saint)
Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries, Day 3 of 3 (Ancient Greece festival honoring Ceres, Demeter, Persephone, and Proserpine)
Magnolia and Fish Jubilee (Shamanism)
Margaret of England (Christian; Saint, Virgin)
Norman Rockwell (Artology)
Our Lady of Suyapa (Honduras)
Pagerwesi (Festival to Sang Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)
Paul Aster (Writerism)
Pokémon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Richard Yates (Writerism)
Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival; Shinto/Japan)
Theocritus (Positivist; Saint)
Werburga (a.k.a. Werburgh; Christian; Saint)
Woodrow Wilson Day
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fatal Day (Pagan) [3 of 24]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [8 of 57]
Premieres
Air Force (Film; 1943)
Amapola, by Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (Song; 1941)
Birds of a Feather (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1931)
Boys on the Side (Film; 1995)
Canned Feud (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Chilly Con Carmen (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Chronicle (Film; 2012)
Dead Man’s Curve (TV movie; 1978)
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther (Memoir; 1949)
Earthling, by David Bowie (Album; 1997)
Earwig and the Witch (Animated Film; 2021)
Fun, Fun, Fun, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)
Hanna (TV Series; 2019)
The IT Crowd (UK TV Series; 2006)
Jane Eyre (Film; 1944)
La Dolce Vita (Film; 1960)
Norman Normal (WB Cartoon; 1968)
Rock You Like a Hurricane, by the Scorpions (Song; 1984)
Roman Carnival, by Hector Berlioz (Overture; 1844)
Santa Clarita Diet (TV Series; 2017)
Semiramide, Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1823)
Shanghai Knights (Film; 2003)
Society Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1939)
The Space Between Us (Film; 2017)
Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry; 1971)
What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (Documentary Film; 2006)
Yield, by Pearl Jam (Album; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Ansgar, Blasius, Oskar (Austria)
Simeon (Bulgaria)
Blaž, Tripun, Vlaho (Croatia)
Blažej (Czech Republic)
Blasius (Denmark)
Hubert, Hugo, Huko (Estonia)
Hugo, Valo (Finland)
Blaise, Nelson, Oscar (France)
Ansgar, Blasius, Michael, Oskar (Germany)
Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)
Balázs (Hungary)
Biagio (Italy)
Aīda, Ansgars, Ida, Laida (Latvia)
Blažiejus, Oskaras, Radvilas, Radvilė (Lithuania)
Ansgar, Asgeir (Norway)
Błażej, Hipolit, Hipolita, Laurencjusz, Maksym, Oskar, Stefan, Telimena, Uniemysł, Wawrzyniec (Poland)
Ana, Simeon (Romania)
Blažej (Slovakia)
Blas, Olivia, Óscar (Spain)
Disa, Hjördis (Sweden)
Simon (Ukraine)
Ansgar, Barclay, Baxter, Blaise,, Blase, Blasia, Blaze, Norma, Norman, Norris (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 34 of 2024; 332 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 5 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 24 ()
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Shevat 5784
Islamic: 23 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 4 Grey; Foursday [4 of 30]
Julian: 21 January 2024
Moon: 42%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 6 Homer (2nd Month) [Theocritus)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 45 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 13 of 28)
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Something In The Dirt: Trust Lies Deep Behind Conspiracies
Something In The Dirt: Trust Lies Deep Behind Conspiracies
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead are not strangers to the horror genre. The pair have become indie horror darlings, directing and starring in films such as Resolution (2012) and The Endless (2017). Their latest outing- 2022’s Something In The Dirt, a psychological horror-thriller about two men on the brink of an extraordinary discovery. The film explores trust between two strangers as they…
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They’re baaaaaaack! We interview, once again, the talented Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson. The multi-hyphened filmmakers join me to talk about their Sundance hit “Something in the Dirt”. Perhaps their strangest film to date. Trust me when I say that’s a difficult feat and an absolute compliment. Head over to our link tree in our bio to subscribe and check it out. #movie #film #cinema #indiefilm #aaronmoorehead #justinbenson #somethinginthedirt #sundance #youtube #interview #filmsnobreviews https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCVGsou4fP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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**Shots of the Episode**
Moon Knight (2022)
Season 1, Episode 2: “Summon the Suit” (2022)
Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead
Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo
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Spring (2014).
By Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson.
Love Is A Monster.
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Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorehead, 2022)
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Sunrises and sunsets. Some things are just beautiful no matter what. And a constant reminder that you only get so many, so you gotta fuckin' enjoy them.
Spring (2014) - Dir: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
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EVIL Can Never Replace Love in "After Midnight" reviewed! (Umbrella Entertainment / DVD)
EVIL Can Never Replace Love in “After Midnight” reviewed! (Umbrella Entertainment / DVD)
Well known country boy Hank has everything he could ever need in the small, rural Florida town: having an establish family lineage, being the owner of a local bar hotspot, and obtaining the love of the beautiful Abby. Their gleaming happiness suddenly goes dim when Abby abruptly takes off, leaving a note with little information of her whereabouts or her plans. Fraught in her absence, Hank drinks…
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The Endless Movie Review
I watched The Endless a few days ago, took some time off for some kind of wedding or something, and now, sitting back down to write about it, find I still haven’t unraveled its mysteries. I can barely describe them, because I want you to go into this blind, as I did, and not looking for plot points. I can say this: two brothers, having escaped from a cult a decade prior, go back “for a visit” and discover their memories of the place don’t quite line up. That is mere plot. The relationship between the brothers is the story.
Justin (Justin Benson) is the older and wiser of two brothers, who are eking out an existence as house cleaners in Southern California. His younger brother Aaron (Aaron Moorehead) is naive and longs for the unquestioned comfort of his existence as a youth in Camp Arcadia. Justin assures him it is a UFO death cult, but Aaron questions this when he receives a video from a camp member, proving they remain alive. To help Aaron move on, Justin agrees to go back to “say goodbye”. It’s never quite clear what they are saying goodbye to, because of course the answer is that Justin also longs for the structured discipline of the cult. Such things are appealing because they offer simple answers. The difference between the two brothers is that Justin knows “simple” is usually just a way to avoid the basic truth that life is complex.
Or does he? The film sets up a tried-and-true formula: younger character wants a fairy tale, older character knows better, sets out to disprove it. This could go one of two ways in an easier movie: the older character could teach the younger a valuable lesson, or he could rediscover a cliche innocence and go skipping naked through the fields. The Endless does neither. Upon arrival at the camp, they re-encounter Hal (Tate Ellington), whose performance as the spacey leader of the place has heavy elements of Wes Bentley in American Beauty. He is not quite out-to-lunch, nor is the alluring Anna (Callie Hernandez), but they do seem to have checked out of worry, something that appeals to Aaron. They haven’t, of course: there is conflict at Camp Arcadia, and what kind it is comprises the mystery.
I’m going to discuss that now, and I can’t suggest strongly enough that if you haven’t seen the movie, you either stop reading or skip to the last paragraph. Justin must eventually admit his impressions that Arcadia is a death cult, which he reported to the media years ago, are drawn from speculation, rather than ironclad evidence. Aaron eventually learns it is indeed more than just a simple nature retreat. Neither of these things play out exactly as you expect. As Aaron and Justin explore, trying to reconcile their memories with what they are actually seeing, it transpires that the camp is stuck in a time loop, or rather many time loops, and in a Shining-esque turn, the people in it are very old, indeed, having failed to escape. Writing that out now, I realize it is naturally a metaphor for the way Justin and Aaron have not dealt with the issues between them, and how they remain trapped in their own post-Arcadia lives, as if Cain and Abel had both for some reason been exiled from Eden together.
Like the vastly underrated Alex Proyas film Knowing, The Endless is not concerned with how it plays to any kind of modern demographic group. The metaphors in the film are sly and obscure, and it’s a trick of incredible skill on the part of Benson and Moorehead. When you break down the film into literary elements, the idea that the phenomena affecting the camp is important not because of mystical mumbo-jumbo but because it reflects the tension between people is evident. Yet, though the brothers felt natural in their conflicts during the movie, and the time loops grabbed my attention on a more visceral level, I found I didn’t pick up on this until the final shot; I was simply fascinated, and the film had done what so many popcorn films have not: turned off my ridiculously over-active brain.
It did so in a good way. The brothers promise interviewers the film is not autobiographical, though shortly before they began filming, their mother took her own life. Benson told the publication Independent that he thinks that grief came through in their work. How do I, removed from their lives, comment on something like that? I can only say I believe it. Let’s look at Aaron’s performance a moment; he is leadened with the pain of realizing that ordinary life is not only hard but often unrewarding. You might say he hasn’t matured enough to realize this, but is the goal of life really to accept that it sucks? There’s a wistfulness in his voice he hasn’t learned to filter out; it is shared by Justin, but the older man has trained himself to hide it. The forlorn nature of Aaron’s acting brings to our minds how grief actually works, not as movie histrionics, but almost as removal from caring.
The movie’s low-budget nature extends beyond the director and writers being the stars and, you know, actual brothers. The movie was filmed in Anza-Borrego park, which takes up one fifth of San Diego county, so while the movie does come from California, it bears none of the hallmarks of a Hollywood production, or even of the desire to capture West Coast glamour that’s hard for anyone to resist. I wouldn’t have been surprised to learn it was Montana or Utah.
Speculative science-fiction, the kind of bizarreness championed in mid-century short stories by masters such as Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury, is a freewheeling category whose only real requirements for membership are strangeness and thoughtfulness. It’s also been largely subsumed at the box office by spaceships and lasers. And yet, I think The Endless might have done well if it had been given a wider release and a small bucket of marketing. It has things horror fans sometimes want---a mysterious threat, shocking supernatural questions, creepy characters of indeterminate motivation. The major difference between this and more standard horror and sci-fi is that these elements start in familiar places but don’t always end up in them. A camp leader who talks like he’s been at the spiked punch turns out to have a method to his madness. Potential romances go places that aren’t in the Potential Romance Playbook. A dire situation involving a man who repeats his life in a Groundhog Day-like loop is left off with a bit of dark comedy.
What does happen in the camp? It’s tempting to say it doesn’t matter and is all a metaphor. Yet this family effort doesn’t make things that simple, since the stuff we saw can’t be explained away. Like this year’s Annihilation, what happens matters less than who it happens to. The film’s last shot is wistful, sad, exciting, a bit funny and bittersweet, and never feels written. It feels earned.
Verdict: Must-See
Note: I don’t use stars, but here are my possible verdicts. I suppose you could consider each one as adding a star.
Must-See
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Average
Not Recommended
Avoid like the Plague
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