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  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★★

  • 2046

    ★★★★★

  • I Want to Talk

    ½

  • Decision to Leave

    ★★★★

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  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★★

    There can't be freedom without resistance, and there can't be resistance without violence. After all, we didn't get freedom sitting in our rooms and praying to "god". 

    This film is yet another proof of the feminist movement in Iran. The nexus that was drawn between family politics and the country's politics was something that exists but goes unnoticed. As they say, "Personal is political"

    How often does a mother seem evil to protect their children from the real evil (toxic…

  • 2046

    2046

    ★★★★★

    Ah, pardon my incompetency to actually write about this film since it's too overwhelming for a fragile heart. It's straight up loneliness enveloped with aesthetics and complexities that seem easy but are hard to decipher.

    It's the best take on unrequited and lost love where we are all stuck sub-consciously, but cannot see past it. The constant effort to find the long-lost memories of love in strangers, the planning and plotting to keep the other hooked, and all the politics…

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  • I Want to Talk

    I Want to Talk

    ½

    Didn’t understand the point of this film. Tried too hard to be sad

  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★½

    This film has its own imperfections but the beauty of it lies in those moments. “The difficulty is making the other believe that they are a part of you” (not verbatim) is something that hits the right chord in your heart as one tends to live in the disillusionment of love. The sound, the music, the mise en scène soothes all your senses while taking you adrift from Lee’s suppressed grief and momentary pleasures. At the end I’d say “All in all is all we all are”

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