Favorite films

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  Rabid 1977

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  The protagonist is at once both a victim (damsel in distress), and a perpetrator of violence => internalised misogyny?!
  Victims are both women and men => the patriarchy hurts everyone?!
  She = onika
  Ate = burger

  (From my notes app on the walk home...)

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  Ikiru 1952

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I want the manic pixie dream boy from the bar's fit

Popular reviews

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  Pippi Longstocking 1969

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Nov 2023

  i had the realisation that, like pippi, i too got a mama in heaven and a papa "at sea" lmao.

  there's so many genuinely hilarious moments across the four films, and in the on the run and in the south seas movies there's some especially absurd and disorientating moments of comedy. so extremely referenceable and quotable.

  also, these films are so incredibly dense with weird, quirky details; cracking eggs into a bowl with the shells, mixing pancake batter with a…

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  sex, lies, and videotape 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2025

  It was so incredible to be able to do my favourite film of all time justice by screening it tonight at vuw film society!!