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  Natural Born Killers 1994

  Rewatched 28 Feb 2025

  Self-actualization vs forced fatehood vs some carnal, taboo desire to commit atrocity that cannot be traced to being birthed but rather something from before even that. I love the pastiche quality of NBK, a love letter to and a searing criticism of media. 

  Witnessing violence and dissecting it as pop culture fodder is a wholly different kind of brutality. Is our need to brute force logic and speculation into senselessness a carnal desire too? Stone says yes. 

  If it’s worth anything, I think it’ll never make sense. And yet I’ll write a million poems about bloodshed in pursuit of meaning. Damn me too then, Oliver.

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  The Monkey 2025

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Bluebird 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Feb 2020

  I often find myself coming back to this film during moments I feel I no longer am motivated to continue on in life.  I am inexplicably drawn to the simple premise of it, and always wonderfully surprised at how complex it really is.

   I’ve wondered myself what I would do or feel in the last moments of my own life, and have watched a lot of films that discuss death and how to approach it. Yet none of them really…

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★★ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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