Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This movie taught me that Japan has incredibly nice public toilets. But actually, it’s an amazing movie. Much like Aftersun, nothing much happens exteriorly. The art you’re consuming isn’t a narrative; it’s a character— a window into a simple and complex, beautiful soul; and, like Aftersun again, the movie doesn’t disappoint. There’s something heartbreakingly beautiful about being human, even in the simplest, most mundane of lives.
They should have just called it 500 days of mid-summer bc it’s such a depressingly mid movie. But that wouldn’t be right because it’s actually slightly worse than mid
Literally one of my favorite movies of all time (if not #1 favorite). I feel like it’s the first mainstream “post-internet” movie, at least that I have come across, and it captures the mind and emotions of gen z, and baby boomers in relationship to them, in an alltogether funny, entertaining, but poignant way, while cinematically, being the only one of its kind. It might be because I saw this movie at the right time in my life, or that…
Be prepared for a slow movie where nothing actually happens. You watch this movie for the subtlety, or as a meditation on fatherhood, grief, childhood, and mental illness. For me, one of the most impactful movies I’ve seen, and I don’t really know why. I drank some wine and ate snacks during the movie which is why I didn’t feel like it was too slow