Mandy Sun

Mandy Sun

Just some silly and unbelievably long unprocessed thoughts with typos

Favorite films

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Over the Garden Wall
  • Minari

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  • How to Have Sex

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★

  • Parasite

    ★★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★★

    Rewatched on imax

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    Ugh another movie that hit close to home. Not sure why people ON REDDIT don’t like this movie, but I truly found this movie incredibly admirable. Not sure about the AI conversations but unfort im not a movie purist and idgaf. Imo, there are many things in this world that can be arguably “AI”, spellcheckers are a version of that using similar algorithms. Was there probably an era of writers that refused autocorrect because of how it shortcutted spelling, perhaps.…

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  • Mean Girls

    Mean Girls

    Bought product placement #3: elf lip oil. 

    Elf has long reigned as one of the hallmark drugstore beauty products along with NYX epic ink waterproof liquid eyeliner. A great alternative to the Dior lip oil that costs wayyyy too much for anyone watching mean girls the musical to buy. 

    From the first application, my lips felt instantly hydrated, and if not truly hydrated… at least shiny. Arriving in a minimalistic packaging that embody the ethos of Elf’s mission—luxurious beauty accessible for…

  • Dìdi (弟弟)

    Dìdi (弟弟)

    ★★★★

    Been holding this off… 

    Brought my mom to watch Dìdi with me, which was a surprisingly rewarding experience. She has not stepped foot in the theatre since the first avatar movie and I think the hair sex scene scarred here from the big screen. And I think the movie made her realize that the theatre is not a lustfilled locale (sorry I love alliteration)! Yes I have a weirdly conservative mother (not politically). 

    Few points: 

    (1) I’ve seen criticism over how…