itsnotfei

itsnotfei

intertwining film scenes with my memories, making them my own.

Favorite films

  • Brief Encounter
  • Scenes from a Marriage
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Melancholia

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  • Companion

    ★★

  • Manhattan Murder Mystery

    ★★★½

  • Pearl

    ★★★★

  • The Iron Claw

    ★★★½

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  • Companion

    Companion

    ★★

    Middling horror comedy with brain dead politics but it’s a fun ride if you suspend critical thought and let yourself enjoy Sophie Thatcher’s performance! It’s kind of like if you watched Ex Machina and Her, then were like, let me make a mediocre amalgam of the two and tag it with a mid 2010s quasi-feminist script. And you also unhinged the jaws of each of those movies and removed their incisors. I’m sick of directors not fully committing to the…

  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★★

    Regardless of its millennial pink campaigning and throaty, animalistic soundtrack, it’s at its best when it skirts eroticism and instead throbs alongside the obsessive, neurotic rhythm of self-preservation and self-flagellation.

    Much of that is thanks to Nicole Kidman’s performance as Romy, a clinical and painfully self-aware CEO. She predominantly operates under the gaze of the many - the faceless audience her telecasted speeches are crafted for, a childhood characterised by a lack of attachment - but she is clueless about…

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ½

    I don’t think one can spoil a film that is rotten to the core. 

    It was two and half hours of misogyny masquerading as satire, portraying a sexually active grown woman with the intellect of a toddler, yet inexplicably attractive to every man - isn’t that the ultimate objectification of women? When the film just started, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I thought that there’s an angle of this that’s done on purpose, to show how grotesque…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ½

    how can a film be so intolerable