Hardest watch of the year. Baker used a magical plot tool to make the story work, but that’s what many men do to women through abuse. He created a trigger machine without actually thinking hard about what the choices he made meant for the experience but also for the characters. 

The conflict of the film is a non-consensual activity created by an abusive, selfish protagonist, and through that all that the film does is create violence against one woman’s body…

I have studied Spielberg since I became passionate about filmmaking, back in early 2008, and has often struck me how he approaches the medium with the energy, ingenuity and passion of a kid, sometimes also as naive - good and bad, but I mean it mostly as a compliment. He has crafted some crazy stories, but they are always so human. In the age of AI, I appreciate it a lot. 

He is going to be 80 years old in…