I like Cronenberg, but this is a sad excuse for cinema. A collection of ideas thrown together without much additional thought.

It is just wonderful to see homosexuality depicted as a sexually deviant behaviour, often discovered in individuals with incestuous and homicidal tendencies. This story had the potential to explore so many interesting historical, social and psychological avenues yet the film-makers were set on candidly exposing the sordid details of the characters. A shame.

For what it is. It was very good... always fun/healthy to challenge your belief in the paranormal. It is often the terrifying things that make us believe in the supernatural. When depicted so realistically our subsequent fear of the supernatural outside of fiction can reveal to us how fear of the unknown/unexplained compells us to beleive that something knowable/explainable is behind it.

Certainly, Carol is constantly placed in horrifying circumstances by either her mind or reality, but I don't think this connotes a horror classification. The portrayal of her delusions are appropriately surreal. This film is commenting on sexual abuse (inside and outside of the family unit) and structural violence against women (inherent within our society). Polanski has produced something wonderful.

Sometimes we are so scared of how profoundly our deaths will affect the people around us. It makes us naive to the potential our lives have to affect these people more-so.

A bleakly moral tale documenting racism, poverty and subjugation set in a poignant time and location. The sci-fi /action quota was somewhat bloated, but a laudable reduction of explosions for the sake of explosions was greatly appreciated. Nevertheless, compelling Sci-Phi(losophy)

Love is so fickle, we know not its forms. Nor the time of its arrival. Nor the time of its departure. We have no means by which to estimate its intensity during or our longing after. We would fare best to embrace it, whenever we've the chance. In the Mood for Love is a living and breathing testament to these truisms.

I think the problem for me is that I grew up with the Indiana Jones films (and Star Wars) as my go to for brainless-adventure-escapism times. This film targets these childhood admirers (need evidence? all the in-jokes and indi-verse references), the story of a geriatric-explorer searching for (spoiler warning) aliens interspersed between hubristic car chases and killing sprees, is not appealing otherwise.

Underwhelming. Pop-art cinematography and imploding-universe special effects, took this film to an unnecessary level. This long after the progenitor films/series, the hardcore fans should stick with fanfic, it is much cheaper and doesn't make gawking-faces and stupidity fluid within society.

A possible alternate childhood for many of us, if we had a different upbringing, in a different town. A great cross-section adolescent sexual gratification and also (unfortunately) sexual abuse. This film highlights the simple pleasures of connecting with someone too, whilst ignoring all taboos.