Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Nausicaä saves her community with the very qualities her caretakers deemed as unacceptable in her youth. She looks outside of herself, literally through the eye of a bug. Refreshing and rare to see a leader praised for deep empathy and connectivity to the sacred in all life forms. Ecocentrism wins here.
“I can’t ask for your forgiveness… it’s just too cruel”
Bugs
Jesse Welles
[Chorus]
Well I have a reason
I know why
Don’t do it just so they'll die
If you're…
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste”
(6th?) time around with this one, and it always has something to offer. Watching this in your Luteal phase hits. Weeped equally during the joyful and tragic. Just simply could not have been executed better.
“Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember I’m here… ”
Later
Frances McDormand carries with the rage of a mother and the empathy of a woman. No one is good and no one is bad and it’s fantastic.