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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  What in the actual fuck???

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Past Lives for baby boomer men…..

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2024 4

  I feel compelled to defend this film, given how its brilliance has been overlooked by those expecting a typical comic book adaptation.

  This is not just a movie about a villain—it’s an intricate exploration of Arthur Fleck’s mental illness, psychosis, and dissociation. His character’s fragility is at the heart of his journey, showing how society can break someone suffering from mental illness, driving them toward a darker identity.

  The glamorization of his descent symbolizes something much more ominous. Arthur was…

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Oct 2024 1

  I’m Not the One Who Missed the Point—You Are.

  I’ve already written a detailed review, but I feel the need to further illustrate my point for those this film was clearly lost on. To do so, I’ll borrow from Todd Phillips (the director / writer) himself:

  “One of the things that people never understood about the first movie was, ‘I don’t get it. He visits Bruce Wayne and he’s 30 years older than Bruce Wayne. What kind of geriatric Joker…

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