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  The Fountain 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jul 2022

  In order to grasp life, one must grasp death. While discussing such ideas of our fleeting continually becomes more and more trivial thanks to the surviving empty platitudes of nihilism which act as an excuse for hedonism and overindulgence, to truly confront the meaning of our physical mortality takes a lifetime to fully accept – and sometimes even then that isn’t enough.

  Aronofsky’s The Fountain presents a succinct dissection of such a universal plight in just 90 minutes. Told through…

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  The Painted Bird 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jun 2022

  Watching The Painted Bird fulfilled a deep clamoring within my soul that first began when I picked up Kosinski's novel early on in college. While I never had much of a drive for historical fiction, the author's prose found its way to fertile soil and struck deep into it with a brutally poetic style.

  Despite its unrelenting infamy however, what made reading the story standout as more than just a mere exercise in endurance was Kosinski's restraint. As dark as…

Popular reviews

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  Underwater Impressions 2002

  ★★½ Watched 10 Jun 2020

  Talk about a triumph of the gill :^)

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  Nowhere 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2020

  Every bedroom is a chapel, every orgasm is nirvana, and youth is the strongest drug of them all.

  As much as Gregg Akari's worlds are stylized and sexualized, the deepest truths shine through with sparkling clarity. For that beneath the exuberance and ecstasy-laden surface of the aesthetically pleasing utopia that is the amplified 90s, we see that actions have consequences, innocence leads to corruption, and rebellion does nothing to stop life's atrocities.

  In any other circumstance, those that need to…

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