Kai Wistoski Harder

Kai Wistoski Harder

i love movies with my whole heart

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Paris Is Burning
  • My Winnipeg

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  • I'm Still Here
  • Twilight
  • Total Recall
  • Universal Language

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  • Before I Change My Mind

    Before I Change My Mind

    ★★★★

    I feel that I’ve wasted far too much time wondering what I am, when I should have been asking who I am. This movie spoke to that feeling.

    “Before I changed my Mind” is a delightful queer coming of age movie, centring on a character whose sex remains ambiguous for the entirety of the film. It’s incredibly heartfelt, charming, funny, and devastating. At my screening it had the audience laughing, crying, and letting out audible Awwwww’s 

    I can’t imagine how…

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★½

    Visually and sonically flawless and breathtaking. I’m so glad I was able to see it in theaters as I was memorized the whole time. Unfortunately I felt like the film was too concerned with its Miyazaki retirement meta narrative that it lost sight of developing and concluding the main character’s arc. 

    Although the magical world was full of enchanting ideas, and was absolutely packed with resemblances to Miyazaki’s former worlds, it lacked the sense of being lived in, and existing…

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  • Call Me by Your Name

    Call Me by Your Name

    ★★★★★

    “Is it better to speak, or to die?”

    Every summer, this movie consumes me. Luca and his team make the food look so delicious, the sun seem so hot, and the water so refreshing. The actors and screenplay make the passion feel so obsessive, the envy so excruciating, the lust so searing, the love so all encompassing. It’s a movie I so badly want to live in. It’s a movie that makes me fall in love with summer, to appreciate…

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