“What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
Beautiful yet unsettling. This movie romanticizes suffering—not because suffering is beautiful, but because it is observed from a distance, seen through the lens of those who never truly understood it. That’s why it feels like a soft memory (I don’t know how to…
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The Virgin Suicides 1999
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Demolition 2015
“Don’t give me love, don’t give me faith, wisdom nor pride, give me innocence instead.”
–Damien Rice, The BoxFrom the start, this lyric feels like it could be Davis’s personal anthem in Demolition. He doesn’t want the complicated emotions or the wisdom that’s supposed to come with loss. He just wants to feel something real, something simple, like the innocence he lost somewhere along the way. The song perfectly captures that trapped feeling, the desire to escape the box…
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Taste of Cherry 1997
Taste of cherry is like staring into the abyss and finding it staring back, almost daring you to keep going. It's not just about Badii driving around, looking for someone to bury him, it's about all of humankind, teetering on the edge, wondering if there's any point in holding on.
"Have you lost all hope? Have you ever looked at the sky when you wake up in the morning? At dawn, don't you want to see the sunrise? The red and…
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