I was 13, in bed, reading "1984" for the first time. Julia hands Winston a note. He's certain that she reported him. The tension is at its thickest. Then he finally has the opportunity to read it... Biggest jumpscare in my life.
I had a really good time in the theater. It wasn't as violent as I feared I only had to close my eyes and cover my ears at the very end of the movie (I'd rate it at the same level of violence as "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"). I heartily recommend this new problematic fave!
While the movie has some terrible LGBT representation (who wants to claim ultra-violent drug lords for their community?) I loved the exploration of the question of what we can and can't change about ourselves.
There was a moment in the movie where I genuinely wondered if it was going to end up as a feel good movie, but no, that was just because the ticking timebomb that is Jessi (Selena Gomez) was out of frame for the moment, and Emilia was making a good-faith attempt at redemption.
I wasn't quite sure how they were going to make the musical numbers work in a thriller. But they worked really well, and the music was great.
The third main actress, Selena Gomez, was also great as Emilia's wife, a woman who spends the whole movie being consistently gaslit by Emilia and Rita, and who understandibly goes a little insane because of it.
Emilia as a character is so magnetic that at times the movie completely forget about its protagonist, Rita, who is almost as much in need of redemption as her client. I wish the movie had spent a bit more time on her character arc, because Zoe Saldana did a spectacular job.
The New York Times knew what their readers needed in these stressful times: a cat picture.
The higher the magnetic field, the higher the mass resolving power, signal-to-noise ratio, and mass accuracy of the mass spectrometer, which are all good qualities to improve. I can't wait to start using the new mass spec for my experiments! 🧪
It's the third largest magnet for FT-ICR MS in the world (after the NHMFL in Tallahassee, Florida, and the PNNL in Oregon, both at 21 T) and the largest in Europe before the 15 T at BIOCEV in the Czech Republic. 🧪