the trace, the puzzle of loss as the revenant of the unknowing. the crushing abundance of the endless stroll, this cyclical grief—is it the sea? why do people just leave? what is this perpetual teleological damnation? why do they leave behind their phantoms to haunt memories? what is this death that leaves not just a trace but a question? how still the world turns persisting with the beauty therein. innocence untainted by the spectres of loss & its symbolic representations. and…
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Past Lives 2023
the slow speechless walks, windy ties of proximity where distance is but a memory stacked atop memories—the dreams that explodes in an opening silence where each moment is a fragment of past lives revealing itself as a nostalgia for the future. dreams untranslated, unlived.
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Y Tu Mamá También 2001
I loved this movie, the adventures, the moments, the friendship, and the 'life' it exudes. I loved the omniscient film narrator style. The narrator gives bits of information about the most ordinary of characters, and it adds to the life of the film, as they seize to be 'ordinary' before our very eyes. He tells what that lonesome grandma is thinking (or what she doesn't think about, which is death), even spells out her name, Martina, and a glimpse into…
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The Holy Mountain 1973
Vulgar surrealism, acid satire, grotesque imagery, Tarot-inspired ritualistic & religious symbolism. The fourth-wall-breaking ending; the folly of messianic subservience, submitting oneself to indoctrination? after all the quest for immortality, self-evacuation of the Self for a higher plane of spiritual consciousness, the real world awaits? The Holy Mountain is astoundingly provocative, absurd. It is one of those films that transcends linear interpretation, because of its surreal ambience—dissecting it would be like using a hammer to crush a mountain. Still, watching it is…
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