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Tarr intimidates me, even though I've yet to watch any of his films. The Turin Horse and Werckmeister Harmonies have been on my watchlist for a few years now.
I didn't like Nightmare Before Christmas when I watched it as a kid, but I think I'd appreciate it a lot more now. I keep meaning to revisit it. Street of Crocodiles looks fascinating. I don't seek out a lot of short films, but I think I'll make an exception for this one. I think it's very cool that your aunt introduced you to it. Nobody in my family would ever know anything about something like that.
I kept seeing people online call the trailer for Goodnight Mommy the "scariest of all-time," so I looked it up. I don't see what's so scary about it, but the trailer certainly has an evocative, unnerving quality about it. I look forward to watching the film at some point. I love your passionate write-up for it, even though it's more about your own personal vision than the film itself. I think it bodes well for your future artistic endeavors that you already have such a clear vision of what you want to accomplish. Of course, making sure that the finished product still resembles what you envisioned in your head is always the most difficult part. I've had similar experiences to your viewing of Goodnight Mommy. I want a film to surprise me and shock me and do things that I don't expect. But sometimes a film will veer right when I think the better, more interesting film waited undiscovered in the opposite direction. Or a film will simply approach its material with a different eye than what I think it should have. I think that feeling of disappointment can help us gain a better understanding of our sensibilities just as much, if not more so, than a film that hits all the right buttons. So at least your viewing of Goodnight Mommy was beneficial in that regard.
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