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The hero, Kurt Barnert, experiences that oneness from an early age under circumstances both exhilarating and tragic.

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Elisabeth has a different response.

(She has good taste.)

She loves these works for their messy impudence, their boundary-flouting.

Hes not a scenery-chewer or a pensive psycho-philosopher like Thanos inInfinity War.

The swine does believe in eugenics, though.

Even where his familys concerned, hell put his forceps where his mouth is.

The actors are good, but their lovemaking has no raw edges, no messiness.

Deschanel lights them like sculptures art objects while Richter saws away to serenade their transcendent oneness.

Its Middlebrow Realism, comrades.

Im trying to decide which shot is the most unintentionally hilarious.

Were a long way from Degenerate Art, sadly.

It wont win the Oscar, by the way.