Josh Dial
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Hey kids!
Do you like any of the following?
This is Refn's Danish-language 6-episode show about a diminutive hero, Miu, who chases after her nemesis while moving through the seedy criminal underbelly of Copenhagen. Refn has said it's his version of a superhero movie.
I happen to think Refn is a genius. A true modern auteur. I like everything he's done. Some of it I love. Without hyperbole, I think he's the best director working today at moving a camera through a physical space. Nobody pans a camera like Refn and his team.
But his stuff is avant-garde to say the least. It's mostly art and mostly not entertainment. I swear sometimes he actively tries to make his stuff impenetrable.
If you like Drive, Too Old to Die Young, The Neon Demon, or Only God Forgives, then you will probably like this. If you don't like those then you'll probably hate this.
I really liked it. But I'm strange.
Do you like any of the following?
- Very long, slow panning across a massive set from left to right (and sometimes, but almost never, from right to left).
- Basements and concrete buildings dropping in lurid neon lights in pink and blue often fading into each other.
- A protagonist that has almost no dialogue across hours of content.
- Sequences where nobody moves at all or says anything for minutes on end (usually coupled with slow panning).
- A pumping synthwave electronic soundtrack from Cliff Martinez.
- Mostly impenetrable dialogue and plot that probably doesn't really matter.
- Pigs that eat people.
This is Refn's Danish-language 6-episode show about a diminutive hero, Miu, who chases after her nemesis while moving through the seedy criminal underbelly of Copenhagen. Refn has said it's his version of a superhero movie.
I happen to think Refn is a genius. A true modern auteur. I like everything he's done. Some of it I love. Without hyperbole, I think he's the best director working today at moving a camera through a physical space. Nobody pans a camera like Refn and his team.
But his stuff is avant-garde to say the least. It's mostly art and mostly not entertainment. I swear sometimes he actively tries to make his stuff impenetrable.
If you like Drive, Too Old to Die Young, The Neon Demon, or Only God Forgives, then you will probably like this. If you don't like those then you'll probably hate this.
I really liked it. But I'm strange.
