Alara 🦔

Alara 🦔

Favorite films

  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Lady Bird
  • The Worst Person in the World

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★

  • Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

    ★★★★

  • Tangled

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★

    breaking free of my usual overly done reviews, what a concept

    - Clarissa dancing to To Love by Suki Waterhouse in the kitchen and then pulling out a gun, she’s just like me (if I were her).
    - Blanchett’s wig was crazy. 
    - not sexy enough for a supposedly sexy spy movie!! where is the holding each other at knife point like in Mr. & Mrs. Smith or any Bond movie? also Fassbender does not appear nearly as in love with…

  • Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

    Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

    ★★★★

    I’m not even a massive Daft Punk fan and was super skeptical going into this but my brother insisted and man am I glad I gave in. This was SO COOL AND FUN AND INNOVATIVE. I felt like I was on drugs (positive) while watching this and that was only heightened by the fact that Emre and Alexa were so hype at singing along that it added another layer of beauty to this :’) it was a movie AND a…

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

    kinda crazy that david lynch (a guy) understands the dynamics of competitive homoeroticism between female friends and the desire of blond/brunette & small/big boob makeout sessions that when realized ultimately lead to wack shit happening. 

    many such cases!

    also, thank god i did not move to la after college LOL

    (also fun fact: Rita’s half-moon style of nail polish was a trend from the ~1930’s to signal that a lady was both trendy enough to have her nails painted but dainty…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    i feel as though anything i say will fall short of all there is to say.

    from the first bit of the soundtrack opening up the movie i was already engrossed, but almost in a sickening way, like i could feel the anxiety and heartbreak that was about to ensue over the next 3.5 hours.

    and isn’t that what living, what being an immigrant in this country, what working under the self-aggrandizing rich is like? perpetual precarity.  living by the…