Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Written by Tector_lives on June 14, 2019

I loved It Follows and I'm loving this.

The collaboration between Mitchell and Disasterpeace is fantastic once again. (This is what an impressionistic soundtrack sounds like Mr Nolan). Visually it is very stimulating without smacking you about the face with technique.

Might not be for everybody. I imagine it might hit too close to home for a lot of young men aged between 22 and 35.

If it appears that the movie concerns itself with a flimsy predicament enhanced by arguably shallow pop culture aspects then that's because it's precisely what a significant proportion of the male population, like the main character,(played by Andrew Garfield who is superb too) preoccupy themselves with. "It's as common as tits and hamburgers."

"Your art. Your writing. Your culture, is the shell of other men's ambitions. Ambitions beyond what you will ever understand."

Time will tell on this. I'm sure of it.