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Recent reviews

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  Minari 2020

  Watched 13 Jan 2021

  this must be that representation that everybody talks about

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  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010

  Watched 20 May 2020

  this is a challenging, mesmerizing film about people who might (?) be dying and already dead at the same time. uses a kind of cultural magical realism and blends it *incredibly* into a very grounded human story, like the characters truly live and breath it.

  also builds up to this sensoral release of an ending that it rly earns.

Popular reviews

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  Safe 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2020

  of the many things that are unbelievably good abt this movie, the 1 thing that rly gets to me is how it paints this alienating hellscape without fundamentally altering/exaggerating it. everyone talks normal, everything looks... mostly normal in a 90s way, but the movie feels so alienating. maybe it doesn't take a lot to make 1990s era self-help voodoo (or the 90s in america in general) seem like cult shit

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2019

  the unifying element in bong joon-ho's work is rhythm

  i always feel when watching his films that there is an unmistakably bong kind of rhythm and balance to the pacing, the characters, the story, and the visual information being relayed to the audience. genre is another one of those things for him... so harmoniously integrated into the story with such care that it feels invisible. i never get the sense that his decisions are meant to be seen as "brainy",…

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