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  Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  this was a very different show from what i had expected from watching the first couple episodes. i was thinking hot blooded fights, desperate escapades and evil rulers thirsting for power. what i got instead were grieving parents, the difficulties of raising a child and cultural assimilation. not that aren't any fights, when they do happen they're very good indeed, but they are very few and far between, the series more concerned with the daily lives of the characters for…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  idk what happens to bong joon ho's films when he decides to do this type of dystopian satire that i find them so charmless but very little of mickey 17 really hit for me. the performances were weird, it had mark ruffalo, an actor ill never understand why people keep casting, the sets didnt look too interesting and the text was OK but had no high points. even the comedy wasn't there. admittedly im feeling kinda done with satire because…

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  Metropolis 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 May 2024

  man i love this film

  i have been listening to conversations about how anime today is made by people who like anime and we might not ever have directors doing politically engaged work again, and while I think there's still space for that, it hits hard seeing a movie say "hey we are moving towards a fascist technocracy, the proletariat is more than ever getting fucked, the military is even more bloodthirsty" from all the way back in 2001

  i…

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  Fallen Angels 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Dec 2024

  in the bed of my partner in crime. straight up "jorkin it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. my pain.

  there's films i dont relate to at all, there's films i relate to immediately. and when a bus crossed a bridge late a night i knew i was doomed. you try to see something through the window of a moving train. but what?

  all these little portraits of solitude, odd encounters, extreme intimacy, the burning of sodium-vapor lamps, wong kar-wai's really stupid sense of humor make for a deeply bittersweet film. this film made me sad. good fucking film.

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