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Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Yojimbo
  • Hackers
  • Ghost in the Shell

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  • The Truman Show

  • The Watermelon Woman

  • Paprika

  • Perfect Blue

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  • The Truman Show

    The Truman Show

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Watermelon Woman

    The Watermelon Woman

    First time watching this after transitioning, and it still bangs. I really love Dunye's documentary-esque style, some 90s queer cinéma vérité from the perspective of a black lesbian. "Sometimes you have to create your own history" is a hell of a quote to end the movie with. 

    Also, I love how much of a 90s ass indie movie this is, people working in video stores, and The Center for Lesbian Info Technology, some good shit imo.

    Lesbians stay winning.

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  • Perfect Blue

    Perfect Blue

    A fucking wild thriller. Fandom and idol culture are rancid, but that's not really an original concept to explore in filmmaking. Contains a lot of Really Not Great genre tropes that might be hard to get past.
    My first Satoshi Kon film, though I've seen a handful of Paranoia Agent episodes before.


    Also as a general note, I hate giving things a numerical value as part of a critique or just talking through my feelings on a film, it feels reductive…

  • Paprika

    Paprika

    Bleh, this is a real mixed bag of a film. 
    All the fatphobia in this sucks so much, was hard to enjoy the surrealist imagery and the overall plot because of it.