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  Cemetery of Splendor 2015

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  The scene where the therapy lights bleed out and color the whole city, leading to the slow dissolve of the hospital....it got me! Really struggling to put this one into words. Leaves a lot of feelings floating in the air - dreams are lonely places but they tap into this underlying contour of our shared experiences, a psychic dimension where your memories can meld with those of another. To share a dream with someone is this profound intimacy that lets…

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  Memoria 2021

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  The scene where Hernán sleeps on the riverbed is one of the defining cinematic achievements of the century. I was already loving it but then, from that moment onward, this movie turns into something transcendent. Apichatpong touched on the divine here.

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  Crash 1996

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  I don't think it's controversial to say we live uniquely atomizing times, where various social forces have aligned to leave us alienated from one another in a way that seems completely unprecedented. I would argue one of the biggest historical developments that brought us here is the mass production of the personalized motor vehicle. It lead to the depersonalization of mass transit, such that every other human being on the road merely generates traffic and becomes nothing more than obstacle…

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  Invitation to Hell 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 28 May 2020

  Wes Craven doing the 'using lo-fi camp aesthetics of TV to convey a surreal social horror about suburban living' thing 6 years before Twin Peaks. Ahead of its time, also in depicting a demonic presence (satan?) as a Ghislane Maxwellian type of sophisticated white woman. In that same category of Society, simultaneously stupid and brilliant, which exactly what greatness is made of imo

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