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  Himala 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Seeing this in black and white really emphasized the distraught felt by everyone in cupang. Elsa is helpless and is stuck as a pawn of commoditization and greed, chayong is knee-deep in religious fanaticism and is obsessed with purity, nymia is forced to continue to sell her body despite her previous traumatic experiences as a prostitute. 

  Its really amazing how devastatingly beautiful himala has aged. Truly a momentous feat in cinema. We never see what elsa sees but somehow we…

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  Sepak Takraw 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I'm going to be honest, this was boring. Now, I wouldn't say that's the biggest crime done unto cinema, but it was a let down. Sepak takraw, the film's title, doesn't even hold any weight in the plot. We don't know if nitoy passed the tryouts, and it literally does nothing for the plot. I don't see how the sport acts as a metaphor too so I'm left unsure of why it was titled after it.

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  It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Sunny Side Up 2007

  ★½ Watched 26 Mar 2023 6

  God, they were so hot when they were poor and living off of coffee and cigarettes.

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  Drifting Clouds 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 20 May 2024 2

  In the world of non-getters, i get it. I get kaurismaki's adoration of humans and their capacity for love and perseverance. I get his romance that is above all informed by the world it exists in—working class life in somber helsinki. I get that small showcases of tender intimacy between the couple is as important as any conventional romantic gesture on film. I get that when lauri tried collecting his wife's salary and got beat up, it was a moment…