"You kept asking me for more stories and more fairy tales to be told"
I do remember growing up with listening to my mom's voice from day to night. I remember always asking for more more stories to be told, for more words to be spoken. I kept questioning the changes my mom made in stories. Every walk from school to home felt like an opportunity to imagine a different world, an opportunity for my imagination to visit places between…
I can't believe I only just watched my second Lynch film bc the internet made me believe that I might not be able to handle the weirdness of the rest of his films or maybe it was an illusion and I just ended up thinking that it would be too much???
Anyway, from Elephant Man to Mulholland Drive is definitely a strange trip, but a very good one for my brain..to get it moving. Or moving it towards another direction…
I feel like I'm constantly telling people how Akiko Ohku has a special gift and eye for capturing anxiety, loneliness, and more. But the women she creates are so damn complex, so wonderful, so vulnerable, anxious but LOUD! They talk, they are active; they have flaws. Their insecurities, fears, and vulnerability never make them passive characters that just exist on the screen. Women in films and on TV are still to a degree depicted as likable and polite. Even the…
It's still difficult for me to watch films that depict the loss and grief of a friend. Somehow Tokyo Sunrise felt like I'm taking a long warm bath. Comforting and poetic but never pretentious or romanticizing suicide. It perfectly captures the darkness and light that come with grief. Something I love about the film is the way it depicts how cruel and puzzling it be to not know about the struggling side of a person. So many questions pop up.…
