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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2024

  Best movie I’ve seen this year. It felt like a Perfume Genius song: vibrant, bodies intertwined, dancing, dancing … then soul-crushing sadness. The ending scene was so powerful (and terrifying), to grow old, to die alone, haunted by what never was

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★½ Watched 04 Oct 2024

  I would’ve been much more okay with it if it didn’t have some truly baffling acting and dialogue at times. It’s like Inland Empire except you can’t say “It’s not for me, but I gotta appreciate it”. It’s a film about utopia that doesn’t end up saying anything about utopia (an old man’s empty rant, like Agapē Agape). ~”Utopia is a dialogue” … okay well what was the dialogue we were having, that utopia is a walkable city?

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  Out 1 1971

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jun 2024

  I survived all 13 hours of Out 1. Ultimately, it’s about what in life is worth doing, what justifies it all. Is it all just a series of games that we play (that we eventually grow tired of and abandon)? Can we remain eager like children and keep going from one game to the next? Or do we end up like Thomas eventually: “I’ve reached a point where I don’t really know what to do.”

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  Nostalgia 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2023 1

  Madness and unity:
  “We don’t know what madness is. [The mad] are troublesome, inconvenient. We refuse to understand them. They’re alone. But they’re certainly closer to the truth.”

  For Tarkovsky, the truth that the mad (symbolized by Domenico in the film) more readily grasp is the idea of unity: Domenico speaks of 1+1=1, that two drops of oil amount only to one larger drop. That is, each person contains a multitude: “I’m capable of feeling an infinite number of things…

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