Dr_Ya

Dr_Ya

Favorite films

  • Shoplifters
  • Parasite
  • Minari
  • The Blue Caftan

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★½

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  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★½

    A film that captures how state power and the patriarchy is influencing and controlling every aspect of life, from society to the inside of family, friends, neighbours. How a person can change when being part of the regime, the judiciary - stopping to see if there is reason behind such cruelty, signing of dead sentences even if there is no merit. Trying to convince oneself and the family that there is justification, but it is harder trying to keep up…

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    ★★★★½

    Always a quotable classic!

    Oh, king, eh, very nice. An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the workers — by ‘angin’ on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress–

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  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★½

    Most of the time I thought "men lol" ...

    Men striking their swords or sticks at each other - don't know the last time I watched a movie where symbolically the penis was so present, sometimes also not symbolically...

    The scenery and the camera work was nice if you cut out what's happening in them. I also didn't expect any major female leads but yeah, it would score really low in the bechdel-test.

    There are definitely a lot of meme…

  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★

    Alana Haim ❤️ she elevated this movie, the character writing in this is so great and even though I find some of the relationship dynamics a tiny bit critical as well as some other depictions of sex and „culture“ it still didn’t give the impression that any of these depictions were correct, just messy and that circumstances can change quite quickly and that humans are weird which made it so laughable. In times it was really absurd but in a good way…