The metaphor—of trauma as a curse passed from one person to another (mostly unintentionally), and how we smile even though we're dying inside—is literally perfect.
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My Old Ass 2024
I recently reconnected with a friend I hadn't seen in over 12 years and posed the question "if you could go back in time and change anything from your past, would you? And if so, what?" We then proceeded to have a deep philosophical discussion about how every choice we've made have led us here, and simultaneously made us the people that we are. My Old Ass centers on the younger self so mainly explores the inverse: "If your older…
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Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy 2014
A fantastic behind-the-scenes look on a complex and beautiful film.
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This Is 40 2012
The magic of Judd Apatow is his ability to make the mundane and relatable entertaining and exceptional, to blend devastating reality and honest emotion with hilarity. This Is 40 showcases that talent above all his other films. It is the honest portrayal of the stresses of failing in businesses that are supposed to be fulfilling passion-projects, negotiating detante between pre-teen and pre-pubescent warring offspring, and making sense of loving but disappointing parents, all centered around a charmingly relatable couple who…
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