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Edgar Wright is one of our great musical directors, even though he hasnt technically made a musical yet.
This isnt just a stylistic feature.
InShaun of the Dead, the protagonists tried to behead zombies with vinyl LPs.
In Wrights worlds, pop can transform reality and make you a different person.
Are these dreams, or are they something more?
Which prompts all sorts of horror-movie questions: Is Sandie somehow sending messages to Ellie from the beyond?
What happened to Sandie, anyway?
And what can Ellie do about it?
But such obsessions can become its own sort of gilded psychological cage.
Neither girl, in other words, has any agency in this universe.
That can have a somewhat numbing effect.
But really, who wants subtlety?
Such stylistic indulgence is very much in keeping with the films general over the topness.
Whatever its occasional stumbles,Last Night in Sohois a mostly intoxicating affair.
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