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blushback

chasing a cinephile’s high, or whatever

Favorite films

  • Love Letter
  • Lust, Caution
  • Challengers
  • Dear Ex

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  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★½

  • Spirited Away

  • I Saw the TV Glow

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

    ”i miss her when she sleeps too”

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★½

    the only way out is forward, the only way forward is through. and in comparison to other studio ghibli works by miyazaki, this one feels ever so personal and delicate and mournful — the world he built rests with him and no one else

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  • Love Letter

    Love Letter

    ★★★★★

    a film of excruciatingly tender and singular nature, i want to bring this with me to a snowy mountain landscape and let the mountains echo it back at me, as if in conversation

  • Hi, Mom

    Hi, Mom

    ★★★★½

    mildly angry/confused about some of the top(?) reviews that seem to highlight just the success of this film and how ~of course~ it did so well because of so and so conditions -- and like yeah sure, but last i heard you review the movie based on its contents so? also some of the vocabulary is like... you know a movie can have questionable history/"propaganda" and still be good right? like i dont wanna speak on this bc i know…