Favorite films

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Hungover sunday rewatch moment.

  Past Lives ruins me in that quiet way where it already knows how you feel before you do. It’s not loud about it. It just sits with you. Like someone you once loved (still love) sitting across the room, not saying anything, but still taking up all the space.

  There’s something unbearable about recognizing someone as part of your story and still choosing not to follow them into the next chapter. I think I’ve known you…

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  For some reason I keep coming back to this over and over like some fucked up kind of comfort movie. There’s a moment in Aftersun where Sophie looks at her dad like he holds the world in his hands. The kind of look that says, You are my favorite person. The kind that says, I trust that you’ll always be here. But the brilliance of this film is in the way it lets you sit in the spaces between what’s…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023

  I had radiation therapy after the day after watching this this and was radioactive for a few days and this movie consumed me

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Aug 2024

  Saw this movie two times in a row last week and have been thinking about it everyday. Having grown up and lived my whole life in the tri city it definitely felt like a love letter to this area that truly shaped every fiber of who I am today. even if it was set a few years before my own adolescence I felt like every second of cringe and angst and awkwardness and losing friends and making new ones and…

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