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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  Snow White reinvented by Cronenberg, where the protagonist and the Evil Queen are the same person.

  While there isn't much to say about "The Substance," given its didactic (yet not simplistic) mise-en-scène, I still want to share my experience. This is neither a review nor an analysis.

  This was my last chance to watch this movie in theaters, so I decided to go alone to my favorite cinema on Christmas Eve. A weird experience indeed. For starters, this isn't a…

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  Naked 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Oct 2024

  The Socratic Method put into a movie.

  Naked certainly doesn’t explore original themes and concepts (alienation, nihilism, lack of purpose or belonging), but the way in which these chief systems of humanity are investigated is truly captivating. This is thanks to the caustic and utterly fascinating nature of Johnny. He chooses to live as a parasite, with no money, no job, and nowhere to stay (but everywhere to go). The only way for him to survive his self-chosen peripatetic odyssey…

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  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Sep 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Oct 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.