MateJeez

MateJeez

Love more than you hate. 

Photographer, cat dad, nerd.

Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • La La Land
  • Happy Together
  • Queer

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  • The Assessment

    ★★★★½

  • Playing

  • Central Station

    ★★★★★

  • Snow White

    ★★★½

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  • The Assessment

    The Assessment

    ★★★★½

    I loved this quite a bit! It’s refreshing to see characters in cold modern dystopian sci-fi worlds still have their humanities attached when faced with their absurd surroundings and situations. So many times we see sci-fi characters being quirky and awkward and weird in a futuristic setting; seeing everyone here reacts like an actual human being is very relatable and realistic. 

    I really appreciated the slick yet cold production designs and the cinematography. Is it large format camera? There’s no…

  • Central Station

    Central Station

    ★★★★★

    Okay I guess I’ll just kill myself??? How do people make films like this and not get depressed?

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ½

    Fuck this.

    As a photographer, as an American student, and as someone who has so so much at stake in this election year—this film is deplorable, despicable, and completely irresponsible. 

    It exudes and SCREAMS Outsider Privilege. It clearly does not spend any thought into why there would be a war or how people are suffering save for some generic, throwaway shots of folks blown to bits or gunned down to bloody messes. Alex Garland has entirely failed to grasp the…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ½

    No. More. Musical biopics. About. Mediocre. Misogynistic. White. Men. Please.

    Actually, just no more biopics about men.

    This made The Brutalist felt like a 2-hour movie.