Ornate Stairwells
A movie podcast
2 years ago

31. Ema

dir. Pablo Larraín, 2019

It's a prison podcast. It's a podcast to listen to in prison. The whole damn day. To keep you from thinking. To forget about the prison you're in and recreate it in your mind. To forget about the bars you have in front of you. That's it. It's a hypnotic discussion that turns you into a fool. It's an illusion of freedom. So that people don't think. Yes, no, film, aesthetics, yes. Stairwells? Yes. Ornate? Yes. But the next day, boom! You have to go to work. And you were convinced by someone. That if you watched a movie and talked about it, you'd be freer. But no. Not at all. It's falling asleep in defeat. "Don't rebel, don't think. Give it to me, give it to me." I can't believe you're watching arthouse films, for Christ's sake!

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