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Favorite films

  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Joyland
  • Inside Job
  • Thelma

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  • The Brutalist

  • Miss Congeniality

  • Legally Blonde

  • 13 Going on 30

    ★★★★½

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    Is there nothing more descriptive of a cube than its construction? Architecture is the medium and its survival journey—at turns tender, at turns unspeakable—is the message. I knew brutalist architecture sacrifices decoration for durability during war. They are monumental bunkers. I never thought to ask bunkers from what? Of course, memories of bunkers also include the traumas of war, forced separation, silenced desire or horror, captivity, little freedoms. I didn’t get why the ending was made so palatable and sweet when the entire film was so … brutal?

  • Miss Congeniality

    Miss Congeniality

    you wanna daaate me! you think I’m gooorgeous!

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    holy moly (extra holy)

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★★

    I watched …. 3 times in theaters, and each time it was eye candy, thrilling, and we caught new details. I would watch it a 4th time but no more $

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