21 | they/she
I watch too many serious films
lots of gay stuff
usually scripts are what matters most to me
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Working Girls 1986
I was delighted by this, I mean just for how dedicated this is to its own vision, how simple that vision is and how unique of a movie it turns out to be. It uses naturalism to its full effect, playing out in static camera shots, barely stylized color grading, unspectacular performances and minimal electronic music to create the atmosphere of an absolutely normal workday. By having the work in that day be full service sex work, there's a strong…
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Bird 2024
It's hard to write about this film. It's a film about childhood trauma and it chooses to depict its events chaotically, in unclear structure, like a memory or a dream, or the perception of a child who can't put things in an order that makes full sense. That structure extends to so many choices in filmmaking, it's creatively worked into the camera work, editing, soundtrack, sound design, I haven't seen something like this pulled off so well and it got…
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The Doom Generation 1995
I'm sooo into quiet movies about the intricacies of human experience, zooming in on very particular situations, creating universally relatable emotions in the process. This film has none of that, and I am in love. The only real plot happening in this film is one that isolates three people from the rest of society, puts them on the run from the cops, only for them to fuck all the time. They might physically be removed from other people, but even…
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First Cow 2019
The feeling of warm tenderness this film has wrapped me in is completely unmatched by anything I have ever seen. It's slow, quiet and stripped back to a point of virtually nothing happening for minutes and minutes, only John Magaro's incredibly intricate performance and shots of the environment that feel like a love letter. It's threw this athmosphere that the simplest sense of threat feels like pure doom leaning in ever so slightly and breathing in your neck.
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