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  Maria 2024

  Watched 27 Dec 2024

  i watched this after reading Patrick Nathan writing about it. i think he got right what this movie gets right, which is that it "turns music into a matter of faith": it turns it into this thing that is orienting, constitutive, a spine, immaterial in the sense of beyond. really the language I wanted to type there was that it affirms, restores a kind of relationship between art and artist. affirms, yes, because I think creating art is fundamentally formative…

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  Passion 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2024

  honesty is not possible as an individual; it is only possible through interaction with the other—that which is external to the self—that self-understanding, and thus honesty, is possible. (only because I feel compelled to point it out to myself wherever I see it, but it is a material dialectic being traced: here, it is not a "true nature" that compels each character toward an inevitable conclusion or shaping each of their possibilities but rather whatever is true in the characters…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ½ Watched 25 Feb 2023 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  After Yang 2021

  ★½ Watched 04 Mar 2022

  hm.

  an entry into the artificial human and techno-orientalism subgenres of sci-fi. the aesthetic choices and to some extent the direction in this movie felt jarring to me, reminding me a lot of Her (2013), Ex-Machina (2015), Black Mirror's 'The Entire History of You' (2011) and 'Be Right Back' (2013), all works that concern where exactly the veil is between humans and almost-humans. for one, its the not-so-distant future-ness of it, set in a time that could almost be contemporary,…

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