Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Three Colours: Blue 1993

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  Given that I was pretty restless and hungry during this, I wanna say commendable effort to have kept my attention the whole way through.

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  PlayTime 1967

  Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Really figuring out what kind of dude I am here.

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  Watched 22 Feb 2024 2

  History’s perpetuity is in its denial. The never-ending quest to cloak tragedy. Never to be systemically blanked; but hesitantly reviewed. Glazer’s abstract looking-glass strips away the mystique of time and interpretation. His harrowing observation of societal normality quietly scrutinises me, you, us. 
  A stone wall isn’t subtle. Less is it nuanced imagery; that’s what makes it terrifying. We accept the truth, but we’re separated from that very same. It’s chilling to bear witness to desensitisation at its most inhumane. 
  If it’s not making you want to crawl out of your skin, something isn’t clicking.

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  Rewatched 31 Mar 2024 5

  As a person infatuated with the world Frank Herbert built from ink, I’ve equally found myself disillusioned with self-contained elements from that world, most notably: the women that inhabit it. And most egregiously, Chani.
  Herbert’s passion for deconstructing the philosophy behind Religious Fanaticism lends itself tool-in-hand to lining the sinister undertones for an otherwise thematically (subtle) story – at least, at surface level. However, it’s also the means by which intrigue through perspective is partially desolate. And if any character-dynamic…