Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Werckmeister Harmonies 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Why do we pursue existence

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  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Still as good as it was the first time. Brilliant and evocative soundtrack by The RZA. Forest Whitaker is perfect at emoting a sort of paradoxical dissatisfied but content loneliness. Content as in accepting things for what they are despite wishing it could be different. Hanging onto ancient samurai philosophy to cope with the difficulties of existence and the futility of it all. Emptiness is form. Form is emptiness. In a world that has no meaning, or is pointless, there only exists possibility to create meaning.

Popular reviews

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  The Elephant Man 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 May 2024

  "I am happy every hour of the day because I know that I am loved."

  This film genuinely breaks me. It's almost too much for me to handle. Even in the dream sequences that are so ineffably mystical that could take one out of the film, I find myself so intensely immersed I forget I'm even watching a movie. John Hurt transcends any contrivance of performance, and it's only enhanced by everyone else who are equally as believable. It is…

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  Mad Max 1979

  ★★★½ Rewatched 01 May 2023

  The first time I saw this I was in middle school and I was bored to death by it. Now I have a newfound appreciation for it.
  Maybe I shouldn't give the film credit for any outside details because it's never stated in the film (though perhaps implied) but the lore that society is on the brink of collapse because of a war based on oil makes the world and its state quite profound.

  We as a species have become…