The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies

Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by PyWoody on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:39AM (#44572294)

For other relatively recent movies I'd add:

  > Evil Does Not Exist
  > Godland
  > The Beast
  > The Worst Person in the World
  > Misericordia
  > The Banshees of Inisherin
  > Amanda [0]
  > Afire [1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18469872/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440619/

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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by jsbg on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:05PM (#44572589)

are movies like Evil Does Not Exist as popular in Japan as the examples in the article though? there must be a lot of similar niche movies made in the US

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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by PyWoody on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:08PM (#44577292)

Evil Does Not exist is Ryusuke Hamaguchi's first movie after the internationally successful Drive My Car, so I would hope there would be some domestic support but that might be pure nativity on my part.

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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by idontwantthis on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @10:12PM (#44578028)

I thought Banshees of Inisherin was quite literal. Two Irish friends are screaming at each other while a literal civil war is going on around them.

I found it pretty disappointing for that reason compared to McDonagh’s other movies which are much less literal.

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