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Movie Review: Phantom (Fraying) Thread
A review with brevity (if not wit)
It has been a strange year for romance in the movies (to say the least).
Lady Bird dated a closeted gay boy then a cruel boy.
Sally Hawkins dated a fish (or a God, or The Creature From the Black Lagoon).
Daniel Kaluuya dated into a surprisingly horrifying family
Tonya Harding clearly married the wrong guy.
There was the romance between the synthetically reproduced human K and his algorithmic true love Joi.
And then there was the May-December romance of Oliver and Elio.
And now Phantom Thread, a very strange but important romance exploring the extreme measures <perhaps> necessary to puncture the male ego and allow true intimacy to flourish.
Call Me By Your Name?
Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) has constructed himself a hermetically sealed world where his every need is provided for and attended to by his ‘muse’ of the moment or by his Sister Cyril (Leslie Manville).
