#78 (tie): Cline and Julie Go Boating: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sounds Greatest
Aside from Mulholland Drive, are there other films that use the narrative device of the characters infiltrating another piece of art? I kept coming back to this idea of the movie wearing another movie like a cheap Halloween mask. It seems like such a durable structure for subverting another narrative that I’m surprised it’s not more common.
May December does this a bit — the movie inhabits the Laterno narrative in order to turn it inside out.
I saw a screening of this a few weeks ago, and the shot of the Madlyne’s former caretakers pursuing them in the boat absolutely broke the theater. It’s such a strange, disquieting, hysterically funny punchline that somehow makes perfect sense.
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