the postcard calum writes to sophie, him buying the rug then it being in sophie’s house later on, his reaction when asked where he thought he’d be now when he was 11, ‘under pressure’ on the film soundtrack and the lyrics “this is our last dance” on their final night away, calum never being able to escape the nightclub and walking accepting his fate by walking back into it in the final shot, him teaching sophie self-defence, sophie’s tiny hand…
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Barbie 2023
giggling a little bit at the reviews that had never heard of white liberal feminism until they watched this film. this was not socially groundbreaking at all, and i fear that the epiphanies some people appeared to have as a result of this are thoughts that most women have at the age of 14 years old. women are expected to be… pretty? and perfect? and thin? but curvy in the right places? be a perfect third way between a slut…
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The Substance 2024
this was so uncomfortable, in-your-face, and grotesque, as intended. the loud colours (like the orange corridor) contrasting with that clinical bathroom and the stark packaging of the substance, the shots of food (especially the shrimp), and the close-ups of everyone’s faces make this film so jarring, as is necessary to get across the film’s message.
one of the bits that i really enjoyed was elisabeth scrubbing off her red lipstick - a ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ moment. the fact that…
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