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big time movie and talkie enjoyer

Favorite films

  • Perfect Days
  • Chungking Express
  • Aftersun
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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  • The Fugitive

    ★★★★

  • Infernal Affairs III

    ★★★★

  • Universal Language

    ★★★★½

  • The Assassin

    ★★★½

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  • The Exorcist III

    The Exorcist III

    ★★★★½

    taking half a star off for mitchell not warning me that there would be a scary old woman crawling around the ceiling

  • Melancholia

    Melancholia

    ★★★★

    kirstin dunst is my ‘literally me’ character.

    loves baths, hides from guests at weddings, cries when the food tastes wrong, and is so very eepy

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  • The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    ★★★★

    celebrating st. paddy’s with the worlds greatest dad movie

  • Infernal Affairs III

    Infernal Affairs III

    ★★★★

    “Infernal Affairs” (wu jian dao) refers to both the charge of the bureaucratic investigative force within the Hong Kong Police Force (office of internal affairs) and the lowest level of the Avīci hell where those who lie, steal, cheat, and kill are reborn to live a continuous cycle of this same suffering.

    This was a wonderful way to close out this great trilogy. I’m in the minority who might even like the third movie the most; the first one is…

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  • Universal Language

    Universal Language

    ★★★★½

    The all-Canadian movie we deserve—it’s almost unbelievable. I can’t believe it took me this long to finally watch this

  • The Assassin

    The Assassin

    ★★★½

    Drawn from the Tang-era short story Nie Yinniang (probably written by a Pei Xing during the late 9th century), I can understand why a lot of people will struggle with following the overall plot if they’re not already familiar with the source narrative. For a lot of Chinese-language speaking peoples, this is a well known story that is widely taught in grade school curriculum. 

    As an anglophone westerner, I was familiar enough with the story to be able to understand the…