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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Jun 2023

  How we remember and recount love from the past is something that fascinates me. It always takes me back to the Raymond Carver short story 'What We Talk About When We Talk about Love'. Everyone who is at one point glowing with love for another must have loved someone else before that, someone they hate now maybe, or someone dead already, or someone they are just friends with. Carver asks, you once love someone more than life itself and then…

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  Us 2019

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jun 2023

  Couldn't match the very high expectations set by 'Get Out'. If the intention was to make the average white people horror movie, but with characters who are black, then yes. Otherwise the point of the movie remains elusive.

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  Close 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2023

  Liked it and disliked it for the same reason; there is so much of goodness around the kids. On one hand, it's ideal to grow up in a calm, compassionate surrounding. On the other, it is too far from the experience of childhood and queerness I see in real life and wish to see more in films. A bit too first-world for my taste.

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