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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Bong never disappoints. 
  The movie depicts class division, power imbalance, eugenics, propaganda through media, corrupt leaders, and imperialism in a science fictional story. I couldn’t help but find parallels that match real life characters and events: corrupted leaders who treat civilians as disposable beings in order to maintain their status and power (convinced Mark Ruffalo’s character is adapted from Donald Trump), colonialism and distorted news and propaganda that portray it as a forward movement (all i could think about was…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Good film, but i wouldn’t say it’s worthy of an Oscar. Every single actor did a great job + the comedic relief that igor’s awkwardness brings was much needed. We look at anora’s struggle of being dehumanised and completely taken advantage of by a spoiled rich selfish kid whose parents kiss his feet through igor’s lense. His understanding, compassion, and respect he holds for anora help deliver one of the messages this movie is trying to convey: to see sex…

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  The Panic in Needle Park 1971

  ★★★ Watched 17 Aug 2024

  I love how the movie‘s goal is an honest depiction of drug dealers and consumers without any use of aesthetics or cinematography that accidentally romanticises that life.
  It’s painfully realistic. 
  + this only worsened my obsession with 70s al pacino

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  A Separation 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2024

  Very realistic movie that portrays complex relationships between family members and people in general. Emotions when in conflict were portrayed realistically: stubbornness, pride, shame, desperation, etc. As a Middle Eastern, it felt as though I had been watching a movie about my own family members, since such conflicts are very common here.

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