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The Skin I Live In 2011
AHHHHHHH WHYYYYOHWHYY
elliot smith needle drop was quite possibly the only tame moment
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
“all those who seek my knowledge will die.”
a fascinating, uniquely disorienting and bitter-sweet exploration of grief. mahito grapples with the knowledge that forgetting his past is the ultimate loss—one that exceeds death itself. although he has accepted the physical passing of his mother, he finds control amidst his grief by actively refusing to part from her memory in any capacity. in death, we become detached from the present and future. similarly, mahito’s inherent sense of obligation to grasp onto his…
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The Handmaiden 2016
the reclamation of female intimacy, bodily autonomy, and sexual agency by actively thwarting an established state of subservience to men—both in reality and fiction. men have historically co-opted lesbian relationships through means of fetishization, in order to relegate such dynamics to the realm of erotic fiction and selective reenactment. this perspective and its predatory creative musings are cultivated in order to appease an appetite of largely skewed, self-serving desires.
nevertheless, sook-hee & hideko manage to break free from this mode of…
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