“You make my life so much bigger, I wonder if I do the same for you.”
“You’re forgetting the part where I love you.”
“I’m not forgetting, sometimes I just have a hard time believing it.”
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Past Lives 2023
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Showing Up 2022
Being involved in any artistic medium is inherently ridiculous. Populated entirely by the goofiest, pettiest, most stubborn people you’ll ever encounter who do very silly things entirely just to make a point—to themselves, to others, to some sort of larger vague apparatus that they’re so totally against. These people are completely obtuse, meandering, and unrefined in their ways of communication in some way or another. And all the same, there is a very deep passion and solidarity between all, that is often unspoken yet (usually) still felt. A very loving piece, which I loved back.
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Conclave 2024
The fundamental failure of this film to disconnect its completely hollow spiritual commentary, with its tried-and-true genre motifs, ultimately leaves me wanting to rewatch something like Silence, which would fill me with slightly less dread about the impending real-life inability of the Church to not continue being a decaying rotten corpse run by the nastiest, cattiest coworkers you share lunch with.
Maybe this is just because I have to keep thinking about how badly this botched the landing, instead of…
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Perfect Days 2023
I had been craving a rewatch for weeks, finally deciding to do so on earlier this week after a long day at work. Previously, when I've watched the slice-of-life dramas of Ozu, Yang, and Kore-eda, I've imagined myself in those insulated, simplistic, domesticated worlds, free of big life changes and focused squarely on the minutiae of plainly living. The small stakes of making coffee in the morning, cleaning up around the house, grabbing groceries, all the cogs and creakings-along that…
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