Autistic college graduate who's fixated on film, specializes in the classics, dramas of all kinds, and Oscars history
The Big Picture There's something special about the rush of being right when everyone around you is wrong. Granted, judging film is supposed to be subjective, but there's still such a thing as a consensus, and you can fall into the majority or the minority opinion. Rarely does the reception to a film completely flip from one extreme to the other over time, but when it does happen, it's a momentous occasion .
Peckinpah was a director most known for assaulting his audience with a maelstrom of carnage and grunge that felt unparalleled for his time. Films like Straw Dogs and The Wild Bunch scandalized both critics and audiences with how abrasive and borderline disgusting they were in their portrayals of brutality for the sake of survival.
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