Coleman Hughes: evaluation

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…Why are those two special? Interstellar I think is [Christopher] Nolan’s masterpiece. I’m a big fan of Nolan. Many of his movies are the same, but I think he perfected his — calling it a “shtick” is not the right thing, but he perfected his thing with Interstellar. It was just a marvelous movie in its marriage of emotionality and the humanity of Matthew McConaughey’s character and the abstract playing-with-time thing that Nolan likes to do. For example, his early movie Memento I think over-indexes on the fun of the playing with time without enough real raw human emotion, and I think Interstellar strikes the perfect balance. Little Miss Sunshine I would say is a perfect film, in my view. It’s hard to say why, but it makes me cry almost every time I watch it. It’s a story of a lot of shitty people. I guess that’s one thing that’s interesting about it. Basically, everyone except for the young girl in the movie is kind of a shitty person. The mom is constantly angry for no reason; the husband’s a fraud and a bit of a car salesman and a fake success. The son is an asshole who only cares about himself. Steve Carell’s character is maudlin and depressed. They all have character traits that you should 100 percent avoid, but by the end of the movie, they have to come together around this thing that — it should be totally meaningless, and then it erupts in a totally inappropriate dance at the end. It’s just a perfect film. I have a few questions about politics. Why are more blacks voting Republican these days? Is that mainly a Trump thing or a more permanent shift?…

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