{"title": "Mandy 2018 tries to out-do the weirdness of Only God Forgives", "timestamp": 1777478035.5419152, "description": "In 2019 on the Cannes film festival director [Nicolas Winding Refn]() ( the director of the 2013 film [Only God Forgives](/reviews/Only_God_Forgives) ) released episodes 4 and 5 of his ( then ) new multi-episode picture *Too Old To Die Young*. Episode 5 titled \"The Fool\" contains a car chase scene. Some argue it is one of the most romantic car chases in cinematic history. The joke is, that the car chase is set to a romantic Barry Manilow's 1974 hit \"Mandy\", making the juxtaposition rather hilarious in nature. But given the ass-born theory specialist that I am, I must suggest an interesting twist to this whole ordeal. During the principal photography of the first episode of *Too Old To Die Young* another film-maker [Panos Cosmatos]() released a film, strangely similar in style to whatever Refn is doing. And his film was called *Mandy*. 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As if he became the monster he was trying to eliminate. That is an interesting corruption of the audience.\r\n\r\nThere is also a tiger in a **Cage** and only after its released, Nicolas Cage speaks in the low muffled voice. ", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1777485906.2625, "p_index": {"2": 13}}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["mandy", "nicolascage", "panoscosmatos", "nwr", "horror", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/mandy_2018_tries_to_out-do_the_weirdness_of_only_god_forgives", "likes": ["blenderdumbass"]}