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  Melancholia 2011

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  The score felt familiar to me… I’ve been thinking a lot about art as fantasy, expanding my idea of fantasy, and I love this as a fantasy of someone experiencing depression. It feels like life is meaningless, there is the desire for and/or relentless thought of death, oh to have a planet heading straight for us to make the normies feel what we feel! Fantasy in art is not a rejection of conflict, it’s finding empowerment through play with conflict.…

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  The Clock 2010

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  12:30pm to 5:20pm to be precise. 😎

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  An American Werewolf in London 1981

  Watched 08 Feb 2025

  A naked American man stole my balloons.

  Pleased to see it’s impossible to overhype how good this looks. I want to visit London! (That’s a joke about me thinking people just think London looks really cool in the movie. I do want to visit though.) The transformation rules so hard it makes me feel like there should be more werewolf stuff. It’s so interesting how good he feels after, but what I love the most is what is unique to…

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  The Straight Story 1999

  Watched 02 Nov 2024

  At last, I’ve completed my David Lynch watch! Everything else he’s ever made I’ve watched multiple times, but now I can say I’ve seen it all. 
  ::Um, Annie, you forgot Dumbland.::
  Oh, God, but that’s like 90% fart sounds. I can’t finish that!
  ::Also he did weather reports. Lots of them.::
  David Lynch, you will always be a beautiful enigma, thank you for reminding me with this movie that we are all of us beautiful enigmas, worth sharing an evening and smoke and beer and story with, knowing that truth remains a mystery, like so much in this strange world.

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