life as a gradually unfolding nightmare; don’t know if I’ve seen another representation of suburban life that makes it feel like an actual graveyard, as quietly beautiful as it is suffocatingly melancholy. The world of school, jobs, and gender as that which kills you so softly you don’t even realize, and then even solicits your own participation in killing you, a death so prolonged it doesn’t even feel tragic, just crushingly banal. A life otherwise is possible, and is felt in the movie through music and color. Caroline Polachek I levitated
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La Chimera 2023
A half-remembered dream that, as opposed to becoming obscure the more you try to remember and piece it together, the more you feel whole and complete and sad and happy and content. Not everything needs to be remembered or unearthed. Allow the past its peace, or go back with it. Cried at the end. Stunning flooring
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Garden State 2004
Peter Sarsgaard is one of the most underrated actors of our generation but he flies under the radar because he chooses to because he’s lit like that
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Babylon 2022
Damien Chazelle is a Hollywood fetishist self-aware enough to insert reductive b-plots about the downtrodden into his narrative of unchecked excess and opulence but not self-aware enough to do so in a way that doesn’t read as a half-assed attempt to lend moral legitimacy to a story about how movies (and the system that produces them) are ultimately fucking awesome and if they are bad it’s okay cuz progress will happen soon see it happened last time also progress can be sad because it drives rich people out of work. Overall Fun to watch
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