bberlin

bberlin

Favorite films

  • Stand by Me
  • The Truman Show
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★½

  • Universal Language

    ★★★★

  • Frankie and Johnny

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    I wanted to like this movie but it was hard to watch. They tried to incorporate comedic elements but it wasn’t funny.

    Mark ruffalo and Toni Collette were difficult to watch on screen. No synergy and unfunny duo. Mark ruffalo tried too hard to put on a Trump act but it didn’t land. 

    Also story felt unoriginal and boring. Okja meets Snowpiercer. If you’ve seen both movies, you don’t need to see Mickey 17.

  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★½

    Mulholland Drive: Doubling, Celebrity, and Dreams as a Spectral Lens to K-Pop 🫰🇰🇷

    David Lynch’s magnum opus firmly establishes itself as a film which indemnifies dream logic and how and why we dream. Indeed, the first opening shot is ostensibly from the point of view of our protagonist Betty/Diane, falling into a pillow. And so Lynch’s “poisonous valentine” to Hollywood begins — a swirling narrative of unconscious desires (in the vein of not only Freud, but also possibly Jung’s Red…

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  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    ★★½

    If you’re trying to watch someone kick a hornets nest this is NOT the movie for you

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★½

    The juxtaposition of her development and the meteorological implications of his room (snow) suggest a tautology of nothing