Mateo Ospina

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Favorite films

  • The Tree of Life
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Three Colours: Blue

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  • Whiplash

    ★★★★½

  • The Grandmaster

    ★★★★

  • The Nice Guys

    ★★★

  • Napoleon Dynamite

    ★★★

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  • Three Colours: Blue

    Three Colours: Blue

    ★★★★½

    One of the most important things I learned during my time as a missionary was that you get what you put out into the world. Consequently, if you don't put anything out there, you're getting nothing back.

    This is a hard thing for me to accept, because I naturally prefer keeping to myself and staying out of public view. When things get rough, my first instinct is to withdraw and cut myself off from others. I share this negative trait…

  • Freddy Got Fingered

    Freddy Got Fingered

    ★★

    It's only 9am, but this made me feel like I've been doomscrolling for 8 hours. One of the funniest and most dreadful things I've ever seen, simultaneously. Yuck?

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★

    As fun as this was to watch, I feel like I got very little out of it. It feels unfocused and rambling, almost bogged down by all its great ideas that just needed more space to breathe. I'm also not a fan of the climactic montage. It felt amusing at first, but almost pretentious in retrospect. I know La La Land did something similar, but I think that had much more weight because everything before it built up to the…

  • Dazed and Confused

    Dazed and Confused

    ★★★★

    I know it's not that serious, but after a few rewatches I'm just really fascinated by the behaviour of the characters. It's like watching a group of animals do their thing and interact with each other; "dominant male monkey" stuff as Mike puts it. Seeing who has power over who, how the right actions bring you up the food chain, and even how those who realize how weird and cultish it all is still participate to avoid isolation. Sure, it…