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  Blink Twice 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  This film is a nuanced look at power dynamics. Social, gender, and even some undertones of racial power dynamics are on display. The filmmakers demonstrate how power dynamics can be pervasive and fluid.

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  House of Spoils 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  This fired off on all cylinders for me. Masterfully done!

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  Predestination 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  One of my favorite films. This is one to rewatch every year or so.  It gets a little chaotic and the story line can be difficult to follow, but it poses the question of existence and where we originate as individuals. How much of ourselves are we responsible for? How we love and view ourselves, and in what ways to we hold up mirrors.

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  Never Let Go 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2024

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  The storyline was somewhat vague. I enjoyed the mystery throughout the film, but some elements felt somewhat incomplete by the end. The themes of worldly evils and mental illness were poignantly relevant. Definitely served as a multifaceted view on dimensions of familial ties and inheritance, place/ home, nature vs nurture, survival, and even variations of how humans gain knowledge. The juxtaposition of a darker skinned brother vs a lighter skinned brother is dangerous and has resounding implications outside of…

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