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Conclave 2024
my views on Catholicism can be summarized by Conclave. Of course it went through a great deal of Hollywood idealistic treatment but for example I was taken aback by the beauty of Dean Lawrence’s first homily. Someone in the writing team knew their shit
Ralph Fiennes was masterclass
I daresay this is truly the movie to watch for lent. “Let us pray that God grants us a Pope who doubts. Let Him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness. And carries on.”
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A Land Imagined 2018
A lot of gratuitous questions asked and none answered. 90 minutes felt like 150.
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Parasite 2019
I had this realisation the second time I watched this: Ki-woo, in another life, could’ve been Da-Song.
Both of them have very active imaginations. Ki-woo often exclaims that everything can be a metaphor, conjures up stories and daydreams and scenarios for his family that sometimes they don’t entirely understand, reads books when the sun is out. Da-Song loves to create, play, and inhabit a life that isn’t his own. The only thing is, there are very few scenarios in which…
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