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Favorite films

  • Saving Face
  • Trigonometry
  • Pacific Rim
  • Challengers

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  • Force Majeure

    ★★★½

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★½

  • Pacific Rim

    ★★★★★

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★½

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  • Force Majeure

    Force Majeure

    ★★★½

    sooo anxiety inducing until i remembered i’m not straight and thank god for that

  • Pacific Rim

    Pacific Rim

    ★★★★★

    that meme where it’s the cow looking at the maze like “the illusion of free choice” and the two paths are labeled “romantic” and “platonic” but they both lead to “loving someone fundamentally as a person” … yeah anyway the concept of drift compatibility has shaped my conception of love since 2013 thank u guillermo del toro

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  • Trigonometry

    Trigonometry

    ★★★★★

    I'm in love with the love in this love story—not just the love between the central triad, but also the love between friends, siblings, parents and children, coworkers, strangers, drag queens in crowded bathrooms. Each frame is lovingly and thoughtfully composed in soft light and grainy film, perfectly matched by the mellow piano score. The handheld shots tracking through intimate settings are reminiscent of a stage production, or maybe a home video. Even the most minor character arcs (Kieran helps…

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★★

    notes on the 7th rewatch, this time with subtitles:
    - in the beach scene, tashi can see new rochelle on the horizon across the water
    - tashi tells art she could get his serve from 125 to 135 with some adjustments; a few years later in atlanta the tv commentators talk about art’s serve coming in at 135, 140
    - after stanford, art and tashi reconnect in cincinnati, the tournament tashi pulls art from for the challenger a decade later
    - grosu, the player patrick defeats in the first round of the challenger, was on the doubles team art and patrick defeated at the junior open