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Favorite films

  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Locke
  • Shutter Island
  • Forrest Gump

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  • Stand by Me
  • Aftersun
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Hugo

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★½

    present is very thin
    i like how the movie shows that we're either pulled back by memory or forward by anticipation. the weight of expectaction became more natural to us than tranquility in our "present" lives. are we gonna be able to exist without reference points? do we know how to do it? are we always going to turn stillness into a question? unsettling and strangely freeing

  • Boyhood

    Boyhood

    ★★★★½

    it becomes jarringly clear it is a good movie when you don't get attatched to characters and their development arcs, or to dramatic plots yearning for an outcome or another, but rather recognize small fragments we have all lived at some point or recognized in loved ones as small records of how there is a continuity to every big/small "moment" in life. the concept of spending the length of the movie or twelve years together with the same actors brought…

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