Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Uncontrollable mysterious nature with no answers vs social/ sexual repression. A lot of sexual undertones e.g. losing the corset in the nature and eventual defeat of the control system. Girly vibes but surprisingly great!

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  The grave scene and the last scene are well made but the plot, especially placements of satirical scenes, arent great. Quite a dumb movie, in my opinion.

Popular reviews

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  The Godfather 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Dec 2022

  Puzzo's Godfather had the potential to become a typical crime movie centred around violence and superficial thriller sequences. It is Coppola’s stroke of genius in perceiving the story as a complex meditation on a Hamlet-like situation of making a defining decision in circumstances you tried to avoid.

  Within the narrative, Coppola recognised a Shakespearean plot of succession following the demise of the old king, the Brando’s Godfather, and he established Michael as the protagonist facing the pivotal decision between assuming…

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Sep 2023

  What if love does not exist? What if all we take for love are rather perverse obsessions over our unfulfilled fantasies that we impose on another person? I see Vertigo as a project centred around the idea of obsession (that we mislabel for love), taken to the extreme.

  French psychologist Jacques Lacan characterised love as an intricate triangle: interplay of us, our partners and our fantasies we impose on them. Here, we witness a man obsessed with an ethereal image…