Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fresh 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  is love truly surrender? since when has love become a power game 

  a metaphor of the objectification of women not just for sex but their literal flesh. sebastian stan’s monologue explaining the appeal of human meat to noa sticks with me in really uncomfortable ways. “why women?” asks noa. “that’s where the market is” is his reply. it’s the thrill of power over another, of conjoining/communion by subsuming another. even the phrase ‘taking one’s virginity’: it is typically men “taking”…

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  All of Us Strangers 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2024

  really speaks to the queer experience characterized by profound pain and alienation 

  trauma, addictions, so uncomfortably familiar, so painfully resonant

  grasping at intimacy
  yearning for connection

Popular reviews

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2024

  beautiful film beautiful night i wish i could capture it in a mason jar of moonshine and smoke and the softness of skin and maybe one day the smell will bring me back to this early january day and i'll be smiling, with nostalgia and longing...

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  Juno 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 08 May 2024

  sweetest most heartwarming movie :') watching it in vancouver where it was filmed is truly a full-circle moment