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July 2023 - still watching... and writing again?

I'm trying to recover my old Chasing Pictures self; here's at least one sentence on every feature I've watched in July. The Raid: Redemption (2011) is a remarkable, astounding work of artistic choreography. I'm not sure it's anything more than that. If you love seeing violent action, you'll get it all here. When I see or hear anyone mention Asteroid City  (2023), I instantly translate it in my head to Asteroid Shitty . There are good moments in the film, but I failed to find an entry point for myself. Anderson's metafictional playing around strikes me as ultimately meaningless. He's playing with toys, playing with people. I'm not against playing, I like to play myself. Maybe I just don't like Anderson. Okko's Inn  (2018) is a strange film. It seems like a children's film, but it's also a serious exploration of grief. I didn't quite like it, maybe because I was jarred by what I considered tonal inconsistencies. Counsellor at Law  (
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"What kind of house?"

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“Gentlemen,” I cried suddenly, speaking straight from my heart, “look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are sinful and foolish, and we don’t understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.” -Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains. -C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce Prologue: Reflections on a Title
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