Anatomy of a Fall — 3.5/5
I think Godzilla Minus One has re-wired my brain a bit. I think every year, I'm searching for what's great, what's beautiful, what's eternal, to the extent that the search becomes a little desperate. And what Godzilla has done for me is remind me that when shit hits, it hits hard. I wanted to call up everyone and tell them about that movie. When something's great, you don't have to rationalize it, you don't have to make allowances for it; you know it's great. 'Anatomy of a Fall' is a movie I very much enjoyed... but not to that extent. So, had I reviewed this a month earlier as I should have, I may have given it a better score. Sorry!! For me, the movie feels like 'Doubt' or 'Gone Girl,' other movies I very much enjoyed, as both revolve around a subject I very much enjoy—once you introduce an idea, it's difficult to remove it from the table. It's litigating a single unknown moment of our lives through the lens of things we do know. "I heard them fighting." "Well, they did lie about that one thing. What else are they hiding?" Relationships between two people are hard enough, and suddenly you invite everyone else in. If two people can't understand each other, what demon will group-think summon? Throughout, the movie does a great job of placing Sandra on a teeter-totter—needing to stay perfectly composed lest one side of their body place too much weight and send her tumbling.
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