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Aparajito 1956
“Don’t cry, Apu. Parents don’t stay with you forever.”
But I don’t believe in “forever”, then?Charulata is my favorite film, while Aparajito is my father’s. Now I understand why. He somehow knew this is who I would become. Be Apu. From youth to adolescence, I was always questioning traditions and customs, which led him to call me “a thinker.”
The mother-son dynamic, the clash between tradition and modernity, the journey from youth to adolescence to finally what we call,…
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Y Tu Mamá También 2001
What is being young? Hungry, happy, and horny. What a narration! It’s so real, so raw, I wish I could have someone narrate my life with that kind of depth and tone. Every time I close my eyes, I imagine it!
The film pulls you into the character’s world so completely that you’re right there with them, feeling everything. That quote, "life is like the foam, so give yourself away like the sea," somehow took me back to my first…
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Adolescence 2025
A lot of things have been on my mind, but mostly, the last episode took me back to a conversation I had with my mother about parenting. While we have zillion differences but we agreed in how good parenting isn’t about shaping your child into what you think they should be, but about nurturing them into who they want to become. Home used to be a sanctuary for a child, but now the world penetrates from every crack possible. I…
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