honestly kind of feel like shit for just not getting what about this everyone else seems to be so enamored with. often felt like Skyrim. the first-person perspective doesn't feel personal and #real, it feels like just a guy holding a really heavy camera. don't really think the formal approach is effective or even all that innovative -- it's not like nobody ever thought to try something like this, it's that they probably realized it'd be a bad idea.

to its…

like many, i felt floored by the first half and let down by the second. it's not a Great Film, but it does contain lots of greatness. often formally riveting and Brody is an extraordinary performer. 

that being said, Corbet makes numerous choices in that second half that did not work for me and often seemed cynical or otherwise non-sensical

Corbet's clearly a very talented, adept filmmaker, but i'm skeptical — suspicious, even — of what a non-Jewish filmmaker's aims might…

So lemme get this straight

This girl is 16 years old, has never left her house, supposedly nobody even knows she exists, and she’s super traumatized after her mom drowned herself in a lake. Where does she get groceries? Whatever. Therapy!

Sometimes she acts like somebody who was raised by wolves, but most of the time she’s pretty normal. One day some girl in a pink tutu comes by and feeds her junk food and they fall in love. She…