martha_pardue

martha_pardue

I write these for myself.

Favorite films

  • Crossing
  • Hoard
  • Bingo: The King of the Mornings
  • Timbuktu

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★

  • Timbuktu

    ★★★★★

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    ★★★½

  • My Fault: London

    ½

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  • Crossing

    Crossing

    ★★★★★

    This film allows you to become part of a world you’re completely separate from. The characters were so real. The narrative arc is very cleverly manipulated..and in such a fascinating way. 

    I shouldn't have been able to relate to much in this film, yet because of the clear and intuitive way it captured humanity I was able to. In the end, I was surprised to find myself crying. Not because the film didn’t warrant it, but because I was so…

  • Hoard

    Hoard

    ★★★★★

    A feeling of confused unfamiliarity combined with deep relatability and understanding.
    This really weird contrast is what gets me. 

    The ideas and the way they were presented in this film were not only unique, but remarkably fascinating.

    It’s definitely an insight to mother and daughter relationships. So depending on who you are, there may be a very different reaction to film that everyone experiences. 

    For me I am so in awe of the ideas and the weird way they were shown. It’s like nothing i’ve ever seen before… in the best way possible.

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★

    I am just going to reinstate some widely known facts.

    Oliver begins as a benign, unknowing Oxford student, seemingly coming from a working-class, broken family. He’s an outsider to the privately educated Oxford goers, who appear on a nickname basis with each other before the first day of term has begun. 

    I assumed it was a commentary on the stuffy social elite. Their lack of ability to exist in a reality that isn’t sugar-coated by false smiles and delicate dinner…

  • Triangle of Sadness

    Triangle of Sadness

    ★★½

    I tried to like this but, as films go, I think it's a bit overhyped.

    The execution and the scenes as individual moments are brilliant and I would say incredible. However, it is incohesive and lacks the proper cathartic journey or narrative set-up for majority of the characters. Thus, when it reached the end I was moreso like '.....oh' that's the end. This is not to say the individual scenes didn't have me glued to the screen - the conflict…

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