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  Blow-Up 1966

  ★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Yea sure great color great discussion of power blah blah blah, but my tolerance of a movie with only glassy eyed woman characters is as little as what the director portrayed as their brain size.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★ Watched 20 Dec 2024

  What a piece of creative exploding shit

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  Petite Maman 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 May 2022

  To talk to the child in the mother you know, to properly say goodbye to the mother goneby, sometimes we need a little miracle.

  It also struck me that the capacity to befriend your parent as a child is such a privilege. I can’t imagine talking without barriers to my mom when she’s 10, or my mom to my grandmother. So much has changed so fast in China. We speak different languages, believe in different monsters and dream different dreams. It’s sad to think that although I love the women they became dearly, I’ll never be able to understand the children they once were.

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Apr 2022

  Whenever the dialogue continues where the conversation is supposed to end, spheres of possibilities open up, and mundane coincidence transcends to fantasies of understanding. Compared with words on paper, tension among actors on the screen allow viewers to step into the other reality, creating a space to dwell, to probe and to connect. 

  This movie’s faith in honesty is refreshingly inspiring. To be cruel in moments of necessity, to discuss the dark, slimy part of your heart with the door…

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