Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jul 2024

  “i can’t see myself at 40 to be honest. surprised i made it to 30.” 

  
  
  

  
  when i was 16, i told myself that i wouldn’t live to see 20. each day goes by now and this reality becomes more and more true.

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  Beautiful Boy 2018

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Jul 2024

  “when i tried it, i felt… i felt better than i ever had so i just kept on doing it.”

  
  
  

  i am nic

Recent reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Added

  in a july 2024 review of this film, i said that i told myself when i was 16 that i won’t live to see 20. similar to how calum said he can’t see himself at 40, surprised that he got to 30. well now i’m 19 and i realized that in less than a year, i’ll be 20 and i would have broken one of the biggest beliefs about myself i have: that i won’t reach 20. of course i can’t see into the future, but maybe, just maybe, i can get there.

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  The Iron Claw 2023

  ★★★★ Added

  been thinking about this movie a lot lately. “tonight i walk with my brothers.”
  
  man idk i try to make myself love my brothers and believe that they do love me. but when i needed them the most, when i was addicted and struggling, they all seem to have just left me. i sorta understand that what i was doing affected them but is removing me from their lives really the best thing to do? maybe it was for them…

Popular reviews

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  Drive 2011

  ★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  is he the frog on the scorpion’s back that is good or is he the scorpion that is inherently bad?

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  Beautiful Boy 2018

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  my sibling wrote in his review of this movie that i (a recovered cough syrup addict) is “priveleged” and that despite my mom always standing beside me, i “continue to use and abuse” - as if addiction is a choice. the things hes said to me like “you want drugs and self harm to be your coping mechanism”, and his review rlly stuck to me because its given the impression that he thinks that i chose to be an addict. and…