Loitering with Intent, I Like Movies, and Mile End Kicks build entire narratives around artistic ambition while avoiding the actual labor of making art. These films confuse creative identity with creative process — turning artistic struggle into atmosphere instead of action.
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Loitering with Intent is sort of like Withnail and I if Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann had been writers instead of actors. Now, those two didn’t go to a country cottage near Penrith to write a script, and yet they came up with a better movie.
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