jupiter ✦

jupiter ✦

self-care is watching movies for women made by women

Favorite films

  • Lady Bird
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Past Lives
  • Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Little Women

    ★★★★★

  • Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

    ★★★★

  • There's Still Tomorrow

    ★★★★★

  • On the Basis of Sex

    ★★★½

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  • Little Women

    Little Women

    ★★★★★

    "well, who will be interested in a story about domestic joys and struggles? it doesn't have any real importance."

    "maybe it doesn't seem important because people do not write them."

    "no, writing doesn't confer importance. it reflects it."

    "i don't think so. i think writing them will make them more important."

    watching the right movie at the right time is one of the most wonderful, most touching experiences you can have as a person. i watched this movie when it…

  • Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

    Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

    ★★★★

    the movie does a great job showing us the expectations, hardships and discrimination korean women deal with in various settings: marriage, family, work and school. sadly, the portrayal of jiyoung's postpartum depression as spiritual possession has probably set mental health awareness back decades. however, aside from the inaccurate depiction of postpartum depression, i recognize all these women and their stories. i see them in myself, in my mother, in my sisters, in all the women i know and have known.…

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  • Yona of the Dawn

    Yona of the Dawn

    ★★★★½

    the fact i've been waiting 8 years for hak and yona to be canon and they still aren't, is my villian origin story

  • All Together Now

    All Together Now

    ★★

    damn, girlie couldn't catch a break 😭

    but on a serious note: the humor was flat, the characters are unmemorable and the entire plot and conflict of the movie felt disconnected to the audience.

    one bad thing would happen to her after another and I just couldn't sympathize with her, no matter how nice she was to everyone. something about the way her character was written felt very lacking to me.