Merel Nijhuis

Merel Nijhuis

Favorite films

  • Johnny Got His Gun
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Sound of Metal

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  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★

  • Saltburn

    ½

  • The Lunchbox

    ★★★★½

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

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  • Sound of Metal

    Sound of Metal

    ★★★★★

    This movie left me speechless at the end. Not only does it capture many important themes perfectly, it has great disabled representation as well; something not a lot of 'mainstream' movies do. It shows how people can find community through disability, how disability isn't something that has to be fixed and even shows disabled joy, which I haven't really encountered in a movie before. I love how they involved the deaf community as much as they did and how they…

  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★

    Whether he is happy or not is not the main point to take away from this movie. It's the multitude of things, of feelings, emotions that might feel contradictiory. To be human is to feel. You don't wake up happy everyday, some days you feel sad because you have to confront a family member, some days you get stressed out because your colleague suddenly quits. That does not mean they aren't perfect days, that just means you are human.

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