sophia

sophia

Favorite films

  • Decision to Leave
  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story
  • The Square
  • Inglourious Basterds

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  • The Last Dance

    ★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • All That Jazz

    ★★★★½

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  • Taipei Story

    Taipei Story

    ★★★½

    Dear all BFI gangs, hello! 

    Wonderful movie that encapsulates loneliness, disconnect, dreams, love, and desires. Traditions were challenged by the onslaught of modernisation, the characters were trapped in a time warp, where the traditional cultural ethics no longer fit their contemporary way of living, their dreams and desires.

    It somehow reminded me how my parent’s generation must have been like growing up – perhaps faced with the illusions that making certain big life decisions like moving abroad or getting married would…

  • Free Solo

    Free Solo

    ★★★★

    “If you are pushing to push to the edge, you’ll eventually find the edge.” “And there’s something that you’ll have to push that far, because some things are just that cool. And El cap is just that cool.”

    Having gone indoor bouldering the day before, watching this made me realised how I can barely grip onto a large open handhold for more than 5 seconds, meanwhile someone out there is climbing for 4 hours without a rest, gripping a crimp,…

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  • Princess Mononoke

    Princess Mononoke

    ★★★½

    I love that the movie is not a simplistic tale of good and evil, but unfolds into a story of how humans, forest animals and nature gods all fight for their share of the new emerging order. Little did we know, the phenomenon of humans greedily consuming natural resources has only just begun.

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★★

    Was forced by my boyfriend to watch this. But very glad that I did.

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