movie_penguin

movie_penguin

Favorite films

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • A Christmas Story
  • Hamlet
  • Alien

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  • Begotten

  • Audition

    ★★★½

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  • Pride & Prejudice

    ★★★

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  • Begotten

    Begotten

    I watched this movie while folding little origami fish to gift to my French professors tomorrow and now i will always imagine this film when I think of origami fish and i will think of origami fish when I think of this film. Probably the first person on earth who has made this association.

  • Audition

    Audition

    ★★★½

    What a good horror movie! Loved the way it was pulled off. Don't have much to say but I was pleasantly surprised by this.

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  • Finding Jesus 2

    Finding Jesus 2

    ★★

    These movies bring up a bunch of uncomfortable questions about Christianity in the fish world. There are no references to humans made in the movies as far as I can tell, which means... Jesus was a fish, right? If Jesus was a fish, how was he crucified? The fish quote verses from the old testament mentioning the Israelites which implies the existence of fish Judaism, right? The movies avoid specifically mentioning geographical locations like Egypt but that makes things even…

  • Lolita

    Lolita

    ★★★½

    So I've read Lolita two times and I love it. The thing that's the most fascinating about the book is just how unseen everything is. The plot and characters and everything are so clearly shrouded in Humbert's lies and exaggerations that you can never quite peel apart what is fake and what is real. Dolores Haze has no real appearance as she is only ever described through the lens of Humbert's gaze; Humbert himself, the man behind the pen, is…

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