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  Perfect Blue 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  love the surrealism, shot diversity, contrast between loud and quiet, and color. it’s visually stunning. 

  you can draw strong comparisons to later films like mulholland drive and black swan.

  it was refreshing that the film had a clear ending. today so many stories are left with ambiguous, open-ended conclusions. 

  the back and forth between the stalking versus industry exploitation pulled the story in different directions at times. 

  i wasn’t a huge fan of the slasher elements.

  the sexual exploitation of stars is an important subject but the r*pe scenes went really far and felt almost pornographic.

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  i want a cat so badly. lovely visuals and score, it was such a pleasure to watch. it all felt like a mysterious dream. i enjoyed the themes around the power of nature, fatalism, acceptance of loss, materialism, sacrifice, and inclusivity. and i liked that the film did not anthropomorphize or gender the characters. i’m not sure i understand the ending.

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  fuck my chungking life

  really captures the boredom and loneliness that was possible in the 90s

  hong kong greatest city in da world

  love how the tight close-ups and shitty bodegas and canned products make you experience urban life 

  an obsession with cleaning what is dirty 

  acab includes the cops in this movie btw

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2023

  barbie movie for art school kids

  cool: unbelievable costumes and sets, genuinely funny, very sexy, a few fun characters, excellent dialogue and pace, neat concept, great performances from stone, ruffalo, dafoe

  meh: a bit shallow, tells a lot without showing, not subtle, socialism and philosophy haphazardly thrown in and not really explored

  ultimately felt that underneath the fantasy world it was a standard story of striking out on your own and discovering yourself / woman existing in a man’s world, with not much original to say on those topics

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