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Favorite films

  • Perfect Blue
  • Mirrored Mind
  • Mononoke
  • Re-Animator

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  • Weak Hero

    ★★★½

  • The Electric State

  • Antiviral

    ★★★½

  • The Last Stop in Yuma County

    ★★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    Absurd budget just to put out something this generic and unoccupied with exploring the themes it presents. However, I like cute robots way to much to actively despise this movie, I saw PC and I felt like that neuron activation monkey diagram. Also Chris Pratt robot yaoi... sure, why not. But something good did come out of this: now I really wanna read the book.

  • Antiviral

    Antiviral

    ★★★½

    I really liked it, especially from a stylistic perspective, and Caleb Landry Jones is obviously fantastic here, however it left me feeling like much more could have been done with this setup.

    This film is mainly preoccupied with the parasociality of celebrity culture and it generally functions on this Black Mirror-esque “wouldn’t it be crazy if this aspect of our society was brought to its extreme” premise, it puts a lot of focus on the visceral shock of this what-if,…

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  • Strangers from Hell

    Strangers from Hell

    ★★★½

    aren't you tired of being nice? don't you just wanna go apeshit?

  • Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind

    ★★★★½

    It’s so easy to see oneself in the actress, overwhelmed by life, unable to create, and incessantly finding refuge in escapist fantasies of a place where everything is easier. The cold concrete and noisy streets of the city, accompanied by the stress of work and personal relationships, are replaced by the sound of waves crashing and the image of palm trees in a golden beach. However, in the end you come to realise that this reassuring beauty of nature is…

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