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Hitch 2005
Was having a bad day, needed a little comfort. Maybe gravitated to the idea of Hitch because it's a movie about self-actualization. Lame that it's built on corny sayings and capitalist concepts of love and romance. I guess that's exactly what a romcom is meant to be made of.
There's so much actual, cool weight to a phrase like, "'you' is a very fluid concept right now." Shoutout taper fro Will. Shoutout Eva Mendes' acting 😅. Kevin James is good…
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Thumbsucker 2005
Pretty weird. Interesting. I fell asleep though. Watched with Liv and Hugh in Brussels :)
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A Certain Morning 1992
“Daddy, what is cinema?”
No way to expect that. Art is emotional adjustment. Belief in some parts of our bodies, even if we understand that it’s fallacy on some level. Slight heart rate changes show belief of what conscious mind knows to be made up.
Mentioning that because it feels like Tiga is allegory for the cinematic viewer. His “real” reaction to filmed danger feels justifiable. Yet most viewers watch that without the same sense of panic.
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Mist Melodies in Paris 1985
Yeaah 🙃! Can't help but think of Van Peebles in Paris.
I always love when a film refracts ideas of performance. It's so apt that this is short too. Form-wise, to show racism as an effective disruption, as a cleaver to the more universal human experiences of peoples oppressed by racism was very tactful. I wish they woulda let that man act out that mental health crisis. But it's such a rhyme that he wasn't able to. And an illumination of the limits of cinema when target audiences aren't receptive.
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