Merwesh

Merwesh

Favorite films

  • Speed Racer
  • Death at a Funeral
  • Ponyo
  • Alien

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  • Pawn

  • Midnight Runners

  • Castaway on the Moon

  • 6/45

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  • The Flash

    The Flash

    Screw the haters, baby in microwave was hilarious and Michael Keaton kicked ass

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★½

    Watching the Fremen charge into Arakeen I turned back into my teenage myself watching the charge of the Rohirrim before Minas Tirith! It was epic!!

    But I don’t think I’ll feel that way watching this at home. Scale felt essential to conveying the emotions the film was trying to achieve. I think Peter Jackson’s world building and the LOTR score are much more powerful. But this film still took me back to that adrenaline soaked high and I kept thinking…

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  • Alien

    Alien

    ★★★★★

    To me, this movie is the embodiment of what it means to be afraid of what is alien to us. Ridley Scott uses what happens secretly inside the body as a metaphor to perfectly express the truth that we are for the most part strangers to ourselves and our unconscious.

    We don’t know how our bodies work (how often are you conscious of your heartbeat for example?), we don’t know where we came from, we don’t know if this is all…

  • Squid Game

    Squid Game

    ★★★

    Are so many people really giving this a 4.5 or 5 stars? Y’all need to watch better tv shows / movies

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