Not exact matches
Creativity as self - care is a very
real thing, both generally speaking and also as a way to counter
bleakness and darkness with beauty, light, liveliness, and inspiration.
Those 80s films, especially Sammo Hung's, had a
real misanthropic
bleakness to them, a sense of horror as much existential as violent.
It always stays true to the characters and the nature of how things generally play out in the
real world, with a brilliant epilogue that gives the entire film an overall sense of the
bleakness of the cold, uncaring world of drugs and crime.
It may sound unfair, but it's also more
real, and is perhaps Stoic's way of drumming into you the
bleakness and hopelessness of trying to lead in the most dire of situations.
-- Michelle Grabner, Artforum 2015 [Her -RCB-
real subject is America [with] a
bleakness that suggests the view of America in the best works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joan Didion — Michael Brenson, New York Times