mindyxu27

mindyxu27

Favorite films

  • Begin Again
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Anatomy of a Fall

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  • Ne Zha 2

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • Manchester by the Sea

    ★★★★★

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    ★★★★★

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  • Ne Zha 2

    Ne Zha 2

    ★★★★

    I want so badly to have the pig in my life

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    ★★★★★

    "Don't regret. Remember."

    This film so beautifully portrayed that indeed "not everything is fleeting. Some feelings are deep." As Eloise finally listens to Vivaldi's Summer composition from the Four Seasons, we see, through the fixated gaze of Marianne, that the yearning and passion Eloise felt for Marianne (and vice versa) had not dissipated but transformed into remembrance - one that is equally overwhelming and fiery to every moment they shared as it occured.

    In a sense, both women, like Orpheus, makes the poet's choice and chooses the memory of one another.

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  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    ★★★★½

    Marvelous ending.

    How much is one willing to sacrifice for an obsession? An idea?

    It seems that it's often when it is too late, when one loses nearly everything, that they truly recognize the nature of the obsession, the idea, and fully admit that they were obsessed in the first place.

  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★½

    Went in hoping for a cute little "feel good" movie but came out feeling like absolute shit. The last shot of Hirayama driving to the song "Feeling Good" while looking at the sunrise in Tokyo was suffocating. The whirlwind of emotions, the tears and smiles he's trying to force yet hold back says everything without the need of a single word. It's impossible to encapsulate or know how Hirayama truly felt about life in the end, but even in the…

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