Adore -2013-

Adore is a textbook example of using limitations creatively. No drummer? Corgan programmed beats. No band cohesion? He played most instruments himself. The 2013 remaster makes those production choices clearer.

The final shot of Adore —two old women sitting on a porch, watching the ocean, their families destroyed, their lives intertwined beyond repair—is devastating. It suggests that the only love that survived was the original, primordial adoration between two friends who confused possession with passion. adore -2013-