Jake

Jake

new way to intellectualize my casual hobbies and passions just dropped

Favorite films

  • Call Me by Your Name
  • La Chimera
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • Y Tu Mamá También

    ★★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • God's Own Country

    ★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

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  • Y Tu Mamá También

    Y Tu Mamá También

    ★★★★★

    I missed the second act because I was having gay sex but everything else was so incredible that I’m still giving it five stars

  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

    A film that dwells on the "little things." Despite taking place in a country in crisis, we don't get a lot of "big" scenes. Rather, we see (or in many cases, we don't see) the gradual toll it takes on a family, the little tortures that this movie wants us to feel, because they are the little tortures that the regime wants ordinary people to feel, to be undone and almost lulled into obedience. An extraordinary woman and subtly stunning…

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★½

    Movie couldn’t really decide what it was about so ended up with a bunch of empty, unoriginal platitudes on evil of war and journalism as spectacle. A few good action sequences, some good performances (Dunst, of course), one good scene with Jesse Plemons. Everything I knew it was going to be but hoped it wouldn’t.

  • Call Me by Your Name

    Call Me by Your Name

    ★★★★★

    a film not just about the beauty of love, but the beauty of being human.

    so rich in symbolism and subtext, every line is like poetry, every image, could teach an entire course about this film

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