ayanna

ayanna

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  • The Guerrilla is a Poet
  • The Handmaiden
  • Blue
  • U.S. Go Home

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  • In the Mood for Love

    ★★★★½

  • Ponyo

    ★★½

  • Microhabitat

    ★★★★

  • Lady Bird

    ★★★★½

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  • In the Mood for Love

    In the Mood for Love

    ★★★★½

    there is intimacy in never speaking again

  • Microhabitat

    Microhabitat

    ★★★★

    this film peels back the layers of miso’s life with such nuance that i find myself torn—should i be critical or sentimental? but then, it’s dialectical.  

    the film captures the reality of bourgeois decadence under late capitalism—whiskey and cigarettes as small, stubborn luxuries amid economic crisis. yet, what’s striking is how it refuses to vilify or shame miso for her choices (what a good structuring of view). instead, it frames her life as an undeniable reflection of a universal…

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  • III. Charles Barber

    III. Charles Barber

    ★★★½

    the curse of familiarity—that inexplicable pull toward someone who has left such an imprint on you that you begin to see traces of them everywhere. 

    contrary to the quote, “does knowing me leads to loving me less”— i think knowing a person deeply leads to loving them more and more even in the face of absence and grief.

  • U.S. Go Home

    U.S. Go Home

    ★★★★½

    imperialism and its control over economic, political, and cultural aspects over its colonies is already a need to know basis but this just further reiterated how egregious it is in the cultural aspect where imperialist bourgeois decadence seeps in even to a personal level

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