A First Attempt at Aesthetic Resistance (2023)
If a comet is a cosmic snowball made up of ice, dust, and rock with a tail millions of miles long, which it is, then consider A First Attempt at Aesthetic Resistance a kind of lit-media-art cosmic snowball made up of socio-cultural criticism, personal essay a la David Sedaris but less digressive, and a Saturday Night Live-like cinematic reflection – ON PLASTIC-INJECTION MOLDED CHAIRS. Writer, director, producer, Patrick Bazin, hits a sweet spot between humor and terror, delivering a hyper-stylized blow to the tyranny of blandness, mass-produced plastics, conformity, and uniformity. A First Attempt at Aesthetic Resistance leaves a righteous desire-for-beauty afterglow millions of miles long.
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Sorry, this movie sucks
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.