One Battle After Another

This movie is long but earns the runtime by keeping you running through its entirety. A deep family backstory builds into a crescendo and then "goes kinetic" with methodical and punctuated motion.

The car chase scene was reminiscent of Vertigo on speed - equally hypnotic and teeth-clenching - definitely the best sequence. Sen Penn is the driving force throughout: the protagonist is such only in name, and Penn's antagonist fascism is the real life of the second half. An incredible, physical performance.

I want more absurdist contemporary fantasies like this (and Eddington and The Substance). But I hope people are actually be inspired and take an oppositional stance instead of taking the satire and going home.

(I think it would be fun to watch this paired with Bones and All: two stories of a girl and her father left by her mother, and the girl is problematic because of her mother, and they are left on the run.)