So unflinchingly sincere. A film that is underscored by a saccharine yet mournful melancholia, reproducing that hyper-specific feeling of being in love - both with a memory, and within one. And that indescribable swell of your heart in the comfort knowing that you were destined to be bound to someone truly special, if not in this life then certainly the next.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012
The greatest coming-of-age film ever made for introverts. I never got to experience doing acid at a Christmas party, or going to a Sadie Hawkins dance, or getting mixtapes with Asleep by The Smiths on them twice - but I've never felt as seen with other high school dramas quite as I have with this one. I'm eternally grateful that I had my Sam and Patrick and Mr Anderson; they took me under their wing and gifted me such wonderful…
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Aftersun 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Depression sucks. I think we all understand it as that glaze of malaise that you never quite seem to be able to rub off. But it's also to be a ghost, pregnant with love for everyone and everything - but yourself. It's to feel utterly worthless and redundant, to be unable to live up to yourself; or face those who care about you. It's a perennial conviction that when you're gone, no one would miss you. These personal truths are…
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Mysterious Skin 2004
I'm breathless. Memory is such a powerful thing. What happens when our innocence is abducted? When our caregivers fail us? When we're sent into an everlasting shock that we never quite break out of? How malignant abuse can be! What we endured as children appears to us now as murky silhouettes, repressed sensations, and a direly injured subconscious. Our body shuts down, refusing to re-live that tessellation of pain and loss.
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