egregiously undercooked, flat, and felt way too forced … waste of a promising cast
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Katatsumori 1994
this vignette of naomi kawase’s obaachan eerily mirrors my own grandmother starting from their relationship all the way down to her little nuances and random rumblings. it’s a cute, candid slice-of-life film diary just documenting the grandmother doing her mundane chores and capturing her childlike spirit. my eyes were filled with so much joy and tenderness up until the bit where obaachan asks naomi if she stills loves her to which my eyes were then filled with tears as i…
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Lost in Translation 2003
“the more you know who you are and what you want,
the less you let things upset you”there’s something ethereal and dreamlike about this film that makes me feel like i’m re-living a specific period of my life where i was constantly faced with hardships and growing pains—dazed in a perpetual state of longing and soul-searching. the dichotomization of bob, being successful without true passion and purpose, and charlotte, being unsure of her identity and desires, is a weird…
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