Still collecting my thoughts on this season but wow. Twin Peaks The Return may not be my most favourite part of Twin Peaks but I respect it a lot for what it was trying to do. That is, if FWWM was a deconstruction of the Laura Palmer story, then TP the return is a deconstruction of twin peaks *the tv show* as a whole. My rough reading of s3 is that the first third disabuses one of one’s nostalgia for…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
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The fact that this film was panned on release is actually so mind-boggling to me because FWWM is everything I liked about Twin Peaks and what I wanted its later episodes to be.
After the reveal of Laura Palmer's murderer at the start of Twin Peaks season 2, I feel like the show lost a bit of what I initially liked about it - which was using a supernatural force/entity as a metaphor for the hidden and embedded nature of…
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Longlegs 2024
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Longlegs is (in my opinion) fundamentally about the horror of patriarchal violence and the ways in which these kinds of systemic violence are perpetuated, often onto marginalized folk.
I feel like I'm going crazy because every single review and first impression I've seen for this movie only talks about its tone and atmosphere (understandably so) and its similarities with The Silence of the Lambs (also understandable) but never bothers to go beyond those superficial aesthetic choices and genre trappings to…
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Bugis Street 1995
Really appreciated how the film associated Lian's growing pains with womanhood with the transwomen in her life navigating womanhood too. Has a really idealized nostalgic view of Singapore but that just kind of added to the film's dreamlike charm
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