Recent reviews

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  I wish I watched it more closey in one sitting, but I thought the switching the slow emotional build and the strange cross-cultural reference of being a foreigner/ immigrating to a new land from the perspective of white people in a Japanese city,

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  Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  I thought the initial scenes in the growing-up section of the progtagnist were really well done. I think the film allowed for a deep level of connection with the lead, but it slowed down for me around the introduction of the war. I think focusing more scenes on what the war did for the main character, would have surged the romantic-interest of the film more fluidly, for me.

  I also have seen some looseleaf notes on the film's cultural inaccuracy, which I surely need to look into more as a foreigner myself.