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  Pulse 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jan 2024 10

  Hide not Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit. And the Διδαχή begins, “There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.” It's the physical act of turning away that nails the coffin shut; buy the lie that you've been forsaken and you nail your own. These are of the second way and the second death. The first way has…

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 26 Dec 2023 1

  Intelligences condemned to the underheaven have our best interests at heart about as much as we do. That is to say, not at all. The fool's errand then is in seizing our fallen morning star's offered knowledge and manipulating reality to our own ends thereby. Yes, the gift of death is the balm to cut infection, sorrow the proper cleansing, but we're called further than a mercifully maintained stability. I am an image of Your ineffable glory, though I bear…

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997

  ★ Rewatched 11 Apr 2021 55

  These cataclysmic visions aren't carrying cataclysmic weight, no matter how large the naked anime girl looms over the planet, no matter how many angel-bots orgasm in space while impaling themselves with lances, no matter how few frames don't feature a crucifix, and no matter how high-pitched the speakers are blaring Shinji's endless shrieking. Protagonists and antagonists alike not only have the conceit to be making their own eschatological decisions, but are basing them on Hideaki Anno's only conception of suffering:…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★ Watched 27 May 2022 27

  You can't have your everything bagel and eat it too. The infinitely, equally random isn't going to jibe with any nice platitudes; the moment it does it ceases to be what you've presupposed and the whole movement, so sincerely made, collapses. Pluralism comes of an authoritative principle, not the other way around – have some gratitude rather than subverting it into bagel oblivion.

  General movie expressions of suffering, sacrifice, acceptance, love, and the like (however awkwardly executed, in accordance with…

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