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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Bill Murray’s line “you never will” made the whole film better than it ever could be. In other words, bill murrays perspective on the film is the most real one (it was his idea to say that). Poignant yet transient relationships with what are ultimately strangers. His age and experience allowed his character to see that over scar joes. Both felt as deeply for one another it’s just that bill is older. The age is right in its goodbye but the youth is also right in its hope. It’s the ultimate dichotomy of youth and wisdom using love as the muse to show this.

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  Rounders 1998

  ★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Flopping the nuts is better than sex

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  The Hand of God 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2022

  Not necessarily a review, more of an immediate reflection. 
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  Some poignant moments. The scene with the director was my favourite, transcendent and inspiring. Beautifully shot. Editing was a bit jarring at times. Would’ve preferred it if the films first act wasn’t so long, though, it didn’t feel like mindless filler. The writing could have woven some of its philosophical quotes and ideas a little more subtly as opposed to characters just reciting things maybe? Unconventional structure which cuts the film into…

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  The Dreamers 2003

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  Not a review, just my immediate thoughts - 
  Will finish later still want to say more. 

  Theo and Isabelle roam naked through their home like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, though in reality they are closer to being the serpent. They are not in touch with reality, they twist the fabric of life and expect to get away with it - they won’t. Their uninhibited nature and lack of shyness is attractive, romantic and endearing at first,…

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