Why The Iron Claw was the Best Movie of 2023
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2024
- The Iron Claw received no Academy Award nominations. It earned less than a twentieth of Barbie's total box office. But The Iron Claw was my favorite movie of 2023. The film could've been nothing more than an effective, bleak tragedy, but Sean Durkin finds home hope amidst the sorrow. In this video, I breakdown the survival of Kevin Von Erich, and why it makes The Iron Claw a truly superb piece of cinema.
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I needed this.
I worked for my dad for two years, giving up everything to ensure his dream became a reality. Despite the long hours and physical toll the work put on me, my dad expected me to sacrifice for him. He broke countless promises and always sided with corrupt contractors who took months to even show up when I was working everyday. When I would tell my dad my frustrations and what needs to change going forward, he would throw up his hands: "what do you want from me" or "I can't help you with that." Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that despite all my dad's talk of family and love, he acts like he values money: he's not a good person. Starting all over at 32. I'm a failure, a loser, someone who's wasted his life for his controlling family...but I'm free. Failure can redeem...damn straight.
I was already enjoying this video, and then you used the word 'enormity' correctly, possibly becoming the first person in history to ever do so. Bravo.
Dang, you scared for a min there. I was like, wait, isn't it basically 'massive seriousness w/negative connotations', so I looked it up (since yes my only English class in Uni was Scientific & Technical Writing, so embarrassment could be headed my way). But nope, fhew, all good, tho I must say I sure didn't know it also means great sin, wickedness or evil. ....So does this mean that everyone is now using it like it's just the word 'enormous'? If so, then I'm gonna take this to mean that not working in an office, as well as my avoidance of all social media n forcing myself to instantly click off any YT video that frustrates me with blatant errors about things I'd learned before high school has been the right choice. Woohoo!
Tho I still might have nightmares about people saying things like "you don't know the enormity of their followers", tho that might actually be accurate in some cases, esp now I know definition #2 as well, LOL!
Excellent script and thoughts!
God damn. This was a fantastic video. Nearly made me cry
A truly amazing movie!
I didn't know they could still make movies like that. Best film I've seen in a while!
Great film. I’ve watched it twice. Once by myself and the other with my sister she was balling by the end of it and parts throughout. Got me as well. And not just the tragedy but the love between the brothers. It’s so bittersweet
I have had my eye on this one, but have yet to see it. You turned the tide, my friend. Gonna cue it up.
Great video, per usual!
SUPERB video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Spot on about the Fritz character played so well by Holt McCallhany. It would of been very easy to make him a out and out villain and though he is clearly the source of a lot of problems and toxicity for the family..
He’s not a evil or unloving person. He’s deeply flawed but everything he does he does for love and betterment of family. Though he can’t see what he does is hurting them.
Kevin even to this day doesn’t actually have bad to say about his father and loved him to the end. Despite the horrible thing he said about his son following his brothers killings themselves.
(Must note, Fritz was sick and had dementia at this point)
could you spaceman that movie gave me great relief for some reason!
I really liked the film, but there are a couple of problems I had. One is the way the father is played up a bit too much to be this stone-hearted villain. In reality, Fritz was much nicer than portrayed in the film, and the deaths of his kids were not really a fault of his own - Kevin himself has said this. I think mental health affects people differently, and I like the scene where Kevin speaks to Kerry on the phone to try and prevent his mental spiral. That's probably what led to Kerry's suicide in real life, but then they add the part that makes Fritz directly responsible and it loses its impact.
The other part I didn't like was the second ending, where Kevin's children come over and comfort him. In my opinion it was very on-the-nose and tried to hammer home the message, which we'd mostly already experienced from the first ending scene with the boat. I think a more subtle approach would have still been clear to the audience, where we see Kevin with his wife, ultimately mourning the loss of his brothers but content as he looks on at his children - he has both gained and lost so much his life, but at that moment he has all he needs.
Good video. But that film doesn’t even make the top 25 films of the year haha. And it was one of my favourites.
I think you’re in the minority with that opinion bud but you’re entitled to it of course
🤓☝️
But really, what were your top 5 last year then?
@@uhlexseeuh:
Godzilla Minus one
Iron Claw
Oppenheimer
Mission impossible
Killers of the flower moon
The Covenant
Tetris
The Creator
Extraction 2
The boys in the Boat
@@Rockstar-bq5fm I’m definitely not in the minority in thinking it wasn’t the best film or even top 10 last year. But I may be in the half-ish that wouldn’t have it in the top 25. I think general audiences loved it a lot more than critics and academics, so there’s a lot more general audience members that ranked it in those higher places. Although if anyone wants to know my top 25 from last year:
1. Oppenheimer
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Killers of a Flower Moon
4. All Of Us Strangers
5. Zone of Interest
6. Poor Things
7. Close Your Eyes
8. Past Lives
9. May December
10. Mami Wata
11. Return to Seoul
12. Monster
13. The Boy and the Heron
14. Tótem
15. 20,000 Species of Bees
16. Earth Mama
17. Fallen Leaves
18. Passages
19. Rye Lane
20. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
21. Beau is Afraid
22. Blue Jean
23. Across the Spider-verse
24. The Holdovers
25. How To Have Sex
@@AH-bm5xs : no offence dude but so many films on that list is proper film hipster stuff and even the more main stream stuff kind of reeks of film twitter smelling each others farts.
Just opinions like my guy. But stuff like poor things was pretentious soft porn and Beau is afraid is self indulgent garbage for Freudian egotistic introverts.
The Holdovers I really liked though, I forgot about that. As of course Boy and the Heron and Spiderverse 2
haven't heard of that movie, but if it was the best of 2023, I would say at least half of the reason is that the movies have sucked since the wuhan whoopsie. there's even highly celebrated stuff like dune and oppenheimer that's full-on not even good, nevermind great.
Dune was absolute trash. I was confused when I watched it.
I was like "they're praising this garbage??"
If you think Dune isn't Even good, what's your definition of good?
Beo tried to sneak in oppenheimer with dune lol
@mattl8774 because dune is a meatrode industry plant movie. People go to see it already predetermined to think it's good since they're only going to see it because of ads and reviews they've read
@@abrahamgn3614 what you say about dune absolutely applies to oppenheimer, minus the book. but only a small percentage of dune viewers will have read the book, even though the movies are written apparently under the assumption that the average viewer already knows the plot and characters. that's not a reasonable thing to do based on some understanding of some cultural status of dune, it's just very incompetent writing.
in fact, audiences especially in america but perhaps also elsewhere could probably be expected to be more generally familiar with robert oppenheimer and the manhattan project than with dune. but I suppose that was somewhat successfully subverted by focusing the movie on only the least relevant things about oppenheimer... which of course also made the movie boring as hell, along with other ways that I'm not going to pretend to not have forgotten because of how forgettable the movie is.