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Favorite films

  • Moonlight
  • City of God
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Black Swan

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  • Silver Linings Playbook

    ★★★★★

  • Black Girl

    ★★★★★

  • The Lovebirds

    ★★★

  • The White Tiger

    ★★★½

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  • Black Girl

    Black Girl

    ★★★★★

    I think this being Ousmane Sembene’s debut film that he directed is very powerful because his message was always about how colonialism was taking over West Africa, specifically Senegal, and I really like how he uses the mask throughout the film to portray not only the idea of colonization, but also to portray the feelings of the protagonist as she goes through this journey because at first, she thinks that life in France is going to be very beautiful, but…

  • The Lovebirds

    The Lovebirds

    ★★★

    I think this is a good example of a funny film that you can use to just pass time like it doesn’t take much thinking it’s more of a just laugh film.

  • The White Tiger

    The White Tiger

    ★★★½

    I really like the end of how like he ends up becoming the people he despised because it just shows you how power or rather proximity to power can infiltrate the mind.

  • All the Bright Places

    All the Bright Places

    ★★★½

    cried like a baby to this :(

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