The Incredible Hulk
when <PERSON> searches culver uni’s research database, every paper title that flashes across the screen is genuine, but every author attribution is phony. metaphor for marvel? still, this is of a different age—so (relatively) few jokey-jokes, so much willingness to linger quietly on strained & restrained emotion. even the colour palette allows for the full darkness possible on celluloid, with none of the feel-good tv photography feige’s forced since. 352
fitting, given the film’s explicit turn to melodrama (‘general, please… dad!’) and even horror (<PERSON>’s first words as the abomination genuinely impelled the uncanny upon me). plus, hulk-as-extended-mental-health-metaphor will never not break my heart. i just wish that marvel’d stacked better bricks with that straw.
also. ‘if we overshoot this by even the smallest… integer’ is my new favourite fake movie maths. 1009