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  Twice a Man 1963

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  The temporary exposed at the face of what could've been reciprocated. Each inflection of bodily expression is at the cost of time. Between interaction lies the desires to exist under total transparency. Yet, it's the heart of shared experience that makes this a positive endeavor. To contribute to public discourse is to breathe. It's interesting to see that realisation broken in its continuity. Perhaps that speaks to a greater wholeness in queer identity. There isn't a beginning or end that…

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  Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick 1965

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  The key to naturalism in art is the curiosity that the participant beholds. What counts as a boundary and how can that be responded to? I bring this up as, fundamentally, Sedgwick’s performance pushes me to reflect on that. Her attentiveness towards the viewer showcases realisation. Constructed here is a boundary between the subject’s physicality and the viewer’s response. However, the direction here contradicts that relationship being a “boundary”. Instead, there is an acceptance of the inherent separation. Once this…

Popular reviews

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  Here and Elsewhere 1976

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Oct 2023

  The approach to demonstrating empathy towards the Palestinian victims against the genocide that continues to pressure them is shown to be at a cost to how we learn about such conflicts. All expressions of film act as documentaries in not just the conveyance of information but the more significantly the relationship between the body of work and the elements at display. Noise, and by extension the commitments of our own lives, prevent us from focusing solely on the conflicts that…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★ Watched 05 Jun 2023 4

  My underwhelming reaction to this film relates to a confusion of mine of why the "multiverse" concept has been continuously revisited in these recent Spider-Man films. The motion that it has been continuously employed is to navigate the narrative across the spectacle of references and an idealism of the greater comic book canon. This feels fruitless to me and I don't really see why this film is being praised as an exception to the rule.

  If anything the canonization that…