A brief trip through Uncut Gems with musical accompaniment (SPOILERS)
Heart attack inducing anxiety, crushing you in sound waves, from a retro-futuristic apocalypse that happened yesterday. Black magic embodied in a “scared jewel”. One cannot serve both G-d and Mammon.
From Africa to a colonoscopy, the tunnel into the diamond district is made of raw flesh. Using fiction to explore truth with tension captured in closeups, the Safdie bros go beyond Good Time.
“Transcendent!” Yes…
The chaotic rhythm of a New York minute – the disorienting noise of congestion – humans and their machines – trailing off over a thousand potential subplots. Raise the Big Apple and watch it be devoured.
China in Ethiopia – Beta Israel – the blood and sweat of African bodies tortured in jewel mines. Does anybody still ethics? They told us all dogs go to heaven. What about Howard, a dog who died for a bone. Every game has its losers.
Is human life as precious as black opal?
What’s good for the goose, not always good for the gander. Howard and Demany locked in an eternal class struggle for all the pennies. He’d like to see Howie run them jewels but he’s too busy trying to be “cool” – gambling the gold for all its glory. Tough break Demany, system doesn’t work for you. And by system we mean the cultural cluster-fuck of confusion – somewhere between economic status, sex, and that single moment of raw glory – that keeps dreams afloat. Then floating away in the clouds, the seemingly solid mountains pass on by.
KG is a black jewel, with a black gem stolen from Black Jews. The gem is his youth elixir, insuring temporal victory, but it comes at the price of the eternal. Covet the gem, loose your soul in its magic and sacrifice paradise for fire. Those who forsake the Spirit in favor of rotting flesh, and take this world over the World to come will come to know death.
Modern capitalism is a dystopian acid-trip if you’re wearing the They Live glasses like Roddy Piper as John Nada.
