Javier Morales

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Clinical Psychologist 🧠🇵🇷
Forcing myself to write a few words for each film I watch. Only rating those that I do comment on.

Favorite films

  • Nights of Cabiria
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Memories of Murder
  • Y Tu Mamá También

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  • The Terminator

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Casablanca

    ★★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

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  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Werckmeister Harmonies

    ★★★★★

    There are many movements across the cinematic landscape that aim to capture reality or unveil truths about the human experience through their lens: Italian Neorealism, Cinéma Vérité, the French New Wave, and many others. Some auteurs, like Buñuel, Jodorowsky, Lynch, and Fellini (who dedicated the first half of his career to exploring cinema within neorealism), understood that there is also truth to be uncovered within the surreal. The inner spaces of the psyche (the soul), the realities from within, projected…

  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    The Freudian unconscious refers to a part of the mind that contains thoughts, memories, feelings, and desires that are not accessible to conscious awareness but still influence behavior and emotions. Freud proposed that the unconscious mind plays a crucial role in shaping personality and driving actions, often through repressed memories or unacknowledged desires. We can recover and observe glimpses of the unconscious through methods such as dream analysis, slips of the tongue (the Freudian slips mentioned in the film), jokes,…

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  • The Terminator

    The Terminator

    ★★★

    "I'll be back"

    *Me just giggling in the back of the theater* 🤭

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Mickey 17 accent - Thomas Howard from The Lighthouse

    Mickey 18 accent - The Batman

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★½

    Visually struck and emotionally swept.
    Was not expecting to connect so much with this film. It presented itself during a very important and vulnerable moment in my life.
    Childlike imagination mixed with nightmarishly palpable fears. It's simple in concept yet masterfully profound in presentation of ideas. A perfect send-off for Miyazaki's career.

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★

    Cash grab, but make it cheeky and break the 4th wall ✨️