The endurance to reach a satisfying resolution and reparations for the violence experienced in a dictatorship. I’m glad I went in completely blind to this viewing. With all the news headlines it feels discouraging to see these patterns repeating themselves which leads me to think about my personal capacity for what revolutionary change looks like. Right now it has to be documenting and preserving the history of my community and those who are unjustly disappearing.
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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies 2024
A great film in my personal opinion is when it creates a reality that links one to their history. In a way a film can be a tool for sharing a collective memory. Rituals become a generational link. The traditions and its associated superstitions fuel our understanding of existence. I don’t want to break the news here but we all are going to die. When it’s my grandma’s time to ask for her final wish, it all may be an…
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You Resemble Me 2021
holy shit!!!!! beautifully executed love the mix of fiction+nonfiction and DEEPFAKES wtf this movie is changing the terrain
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Trekking my way back home until walking by the theater to see that the next showing of this film is in only 10mins. It’s 9:54 pm. My friends and I spontaneously decided that we should go and watch the damn movie. It was my first time just stumbling by a theater without the plan to go watch a movie.
This moment felt poetic for this film. Existence is so futile yet so invigorating and moments like this one make it so worthwhile. Preserve through the discomfort and chaos cause that only makes you grow.
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