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Drive My Car 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Sometimes, all you can do is stare your grief directly in the face.
Over the course of three hours, Drive My Car meticulously deconstructs the process of grief and the many, many angles it can present of an individual in a way that feels so exonerating in its human approach. Many perspectives, thoughts and ideas around the way to process loss are banded around for the duration, but the main message the film wants to leave us with is the…
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The Wind Rises 2013
Flight has always carried metaphorical resonance in Studio Ghibli movies- such as the spiritual design nods of aircraft in Porco Rosso, or the tool of flight being the key to adventure and opportunity in Kiki's Delivery Service. This love of aviation is culminated in The Wind Rises, which tells a tale inspired by Japanese engineer Jiro Hirokoshi and the 1937 book The Wind Has Risen. With a spine of reference, Miyazaki is able to weave a story that feels equally…
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Night Is Short, Walk On Girl 2017
through the good times and the bad times, the people around us are the ones who make it count- and it's never too late ♡
broke: studio ghibli food looks so good
woke: I want to sip imitation denki bran with Don Underwear and dissect life's intricacies
full review: boxd.it/79fdpF
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Ritual 2000
Forgoes character study that other films would rest their laurels on, instead opting for thematic observation. There's a multi headed beast of emotional concurrence at the core of Ritual; anger, fear, whimsy, sorrow all swirling into an unrecognisable, autopiloted response in the face of hardship and trauma. Feels almost ironic to call a film with around 6 characters and 5 locations at most 'ambitious', but the way Ritual is able to dovetail so many concepts and themes without buckling under…
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Madame Web 2024
I couldn't even Madame to this! 😂😂 I Webbed IMMEDIATELY 🕸🕷😂 Clean up on aisle my Sony Cinematic Universe! 😂💯
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Nosferatu 2024
Has the sauce, but in a way that's more cold and clinical with an attention to cohesive atmosphere and accuracy that leaves it feeling like its missing something- but I can't quite put my finger on what
Well shot, good performances mostly also- would have liked some more tension and a tighter middle section to hook me in more than just thinking that this one is pretty decent
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