Jay

Jay

Favorite films

  • 20 Days in Mariupol
  • The Last Repair Shop
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Dìdi (弟弟)

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  • Raise the Red Lantern

    ★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

    I haven't finished the movie yet

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    A Woman Under the Influence

    ★★★★

    A long, painful watch of a patriarchal intwined nuclear family that drives you mad. Mabel ferments at her house bound by her children, as she goes mad from ennui and loneliness and abuse, and you see her fully collapse in the matter of meet hours. Even as you watch Mabel unfold into a mess, you watch as the cruel reality unfold that the world has done her wrong and done nothing but fan her flames. It almost drives you nuts…

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  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    ★★★★★

    An absolutely excellent movie that delves into themes of isolations and paranoia. Harry constantly is being watched : by his colleagues, himself, the company and God, imitating the encroached privacy he delivers to his very clientele. The whole movie leaves you in suspense, wondering what the conversation was and down a whodunnit rabbit hole. The cinematography often times makes it feel like Harry is alone, with wide shorts that isolate him from others, other times claustrophobic or like he’s being…

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★½

    One of the most staggering realizations of transitioning I've never really had a good hand on until I started physically transitioning is how much waiting there is. I have to wait to achieve my dream look, I'll wait to get my hormones and I'll wait for people to accept me etc etc. Isttg really captured the 'waiting' aspect of transition: where time flies at a sickeningly fast pace and as the world's moves around you, you are still and just…

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