Movies of the Year part ii
New York Magazine has posted its Top Ten. I would put under consideration Sideways, The Incredibles, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Kill Bill. Farenheit 9/11 I would thank and excuse. Lord knows I like its politics better than The Incredibles, about which more later; it seemed to perform a similar service as the too-many blog-hours I put in, but it didn't make me think you could do anything with film differently than I already knew. Yes, it was an independent social phenomenon; but if you want a special award for that, you have to win me an election. As they say, if you shoot at the king, you have to aim for his head to get an Oscar.Also via the List of 2004 Bests at Fimoculous, John Patterson praises Before Sunset for its presentation of an American and a Frenchwoman calmly conversing about the fate of the world in a year when the public discourse was not nearly as edifying.
He then goes on to make a similar, or at least converse, point about Farenheit 9/11, writing that after the film did $250 million in business at which Uncle Walt turned up his mousy nose, we still lost the election.
I'm ready for cultural politics to mean more than red-state vs. blue-state again. It seems that may take a generation.
What narrative film at the most interesting politics of the year? The most subversive? The most humane?
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