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  They Live by Night 1948

  Watched 20 Dec 2024

  deleuze quote about landscapes being the loved one’s face. love remaking landscape, rhythm, law, knowledge. and despite an ultimate failure to fully do that (literally re the finale, but also as to the failure of the medium to realize whatever transcendent image the characters envision) it is not cynical….tragic but still full of hope and purity and beauty etc WOW kind of the best thing ive ever seen 10000 stars

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  Rebecca 1940

  Rewatched 07 Dec 2024

  fireee

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  Saltburn 2023

  Watched 24 Nov 2023

  astonishingly bad…completely devoid of intelligence, sex appeal, narrative skill. knockoff teorema pasolini is rolling in his grave

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  The Piano Teacher 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2022 2

  “i disgust you, don’t i?”

  walking around with an open wound created by a lifetime of abuse and isolation.. the relationship to the body as one defined by pain and alienation, desperately seeking pleasure from it and the suffering that comes from opening yourself, your body and your desires to another person and having that brutally violated…yearning for both power and powerlessness as our desires are violently manipulated and subjugated to others’. almost too painful to watch, esp in the…