Ellis J.S. Plant (James Spennser)

Ellis J.S. Plant (James Spennser)

Favorite films

  • Opera
  • Belly
  • The Mothman Prophecies
  • Megalopolis

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  • Black Bag

  • Belly

  • Pompeii

  • Mickey 17

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    There's a scene in this where a character remembers a conversation from an earlier scene, and when they remember, the shots of those they're speaking with are at different angles, mirroring an actual memory, and how, over just a day or so, our mind distorts certain angles - e.g. was that cat yesterday directly to my right or to my right and ever-so-slightly in front of me? Also, one of my fave 2020s scores and one of my fave 2020s scripts.

  • Belly

    Belly

    SHEET
    There you are, blowing in the vehement wind,
    Watching me through the lining, the window
    I could wrap you up around my arm, squeeze
    you
    In a soft bundle of release, and my worries will
    cease.
    I could lay you over Clementine, my soft
    baby, and give her better rest, or I
    could
    if you would let me,
    wrap you right 'round myself - you're a coo,
    a stir in the gentle night, a whisper,
    but in reality you're
    just you - and, alas,
    I want you.

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  • John Wick: Chapter 4

    John Wick: Chapter 4

    ★★★★★

    Yeah.

  • Trap

    Trap

    "I feel...out of control."

    The masks we wear. Dishonesty as THE fatal flaw of mankind. The Evanescence of contemporaneity by way of propagating the unremarkable so relentlessly the seldom blends with it - to the point where nothing is seldom. Cooper's face says it all during those moments.

    The film is very, very tense, and Hartnett's performance was surprisingly eccentric. I don't want to say too much right now, simply because it's only just come out and I don't want…