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...just another rock star falling off the deep end. The film even includes footage of Morrison in his hometown with his family, when he started reading Friedrich Nietzsche and William Blake at the age of 16. In fact, the name of the band originates from a line in Blake??s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell...
Perhaps this focus on family can explain why Robin Barker, Blake??s mother, was not surprised at her son’s decision...
...essay, “Afar, A Bird,” hearkens to Blake??s poetic works, further proof that the essay can be interpreted as a work...
...extreme-makeover guru, peddling a sort of sexual plastic surgery. Pushing their Gossip Girl personas’ decided lack of naiveté to a new extreme, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester jointly lick a cone topped with two scoops of ice cream in an unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake??s innocent “come-hither” gaze and her prominent cleavage combine with the child-like sweetness of the strawberry-ice-cream-cone-turned-sex-organ to create an image that, while explicitly sexual, remains frustratingly ambivalent—caught somewhere within the fantasy...
...would be one of the movie’s gems if paired with a better target of affection.The film remains an immersive experience. Its heavy, disheartening examination of society’s periodic wish for self-destruction builds through long, brooding scenes and stunningly detailed panoramas—from Blake??s lonely, rainy funeral to Veidt’s ancient Egyptian-style retreat in Antarctica. This attention to detail, however, inevitably makes the movie feel slow at times. The viewer must embrace it and soak in the film’s visual extravagance, or reject it and battle...