e1lephant

e1lephant

Documenting Chapter 1.0 of my cinephile journey <3

Favorite films

  • God's Own Country
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Past Lives
  • The Farewell

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

  • Blade Runner

    ★★★

  • Watchmen

    ★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    this one felt exactly what i needed this week, just letting the cinematography & score glide me along, the whole film felt like sticking my head out the window during a drive letting light & wind catch my face. Oh how I enjoyed coming into this with zero clue & just letting the narrative envelop me, the characters gently assembling around, painting a stark picture of a complex figure shouldered by the weight of his creative genius, towered by the mounds of concrete…

  • Blade Runner

    Blade Runner

    ★★★

    human falling in love with robot in the 80s is perhaps the most accurate prediction of the future ever also can we talk about how many people now exhibit nexus 6 like qualities because im pretty i meet at least one npc daily

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  • Bugis Street

    Bugis Street

    ★★★★½

    to be able to watch this film restored in its glowing uncensored beauty in a sold-out cinema in Singapore of all places for the first time in 30 years after it premiered and was banned by the authorities felt so special & I'm so glad I got to be in that room and hear the cast speak all about the film after.

    this is truly one of the best if not the best Singaporean films made till this day and as…

  • Three Colours: Blue

    Three Colours: Blue

    ★★★★½

    now this is a picture oh my gawd... some of the most intricately worked and drop-dead gorgeous cinematography. this was a movie I had to sit with, mull over, taking mini breaks in between my watch & sometimes these are the movies I love the most. I guess I've thought about blue a ton, blue in the sense of listlessness, ennui after the shocking pang of emptiness, blue as a liminal space as a pool one plunges into to drown out…

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