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  Capturing the Friedmans 2003

  ½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I had to turn this off as soon as I heard the journalist declaring there to be too much 'hysteria' around CSA. This feeds into the message Jarecki seems to be sending with this movie: don't believe survivors.
  I work with survivors of sexual violence and the #1 reason I hear, over and over again, for their staying silent - sometimes for decades - about the abuse they endured is that they were afraid they would not be believed. Movies…

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  Companion 2025

  ★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  wants so badly to replicate the funny/dark tone of Black Mirror, but its humour is so edgeless, its writing clumsy, and its casting so completely flat, that it doesn't even scrape the bottom level of the worst BM episodes. also i'm INCREDIBLY sick of gay men being used as comedic bestie side characters, and sexual violence being used as a lazy plot device.

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  Lolita 1962

  ½ Added

  The question shouldn't be 'HOW did they make a movie out of Lolita?' but 'WHY'? There is so much wrong with this adaptation, which completely misses the point of the book and frames Humbert as some kind of lovable buffoon caught in a farcical situation. Are Peter Sellers' wacky disguises supposed to distract us from the fact that we are watching a story about rape and paedophilia?

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2021

  Why was this made? I can't see any reason other than 'it's a film so we can add boobs'. Baffling, badly written and exploitative on many levels. One star awarded to Angelo Badalamenti, though for the gorgeous soundtrack!

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