nora

nora

english @ uchicago, cambridge. likes homoerotic historical dramas & anything deeply strange

Favorite films

  • The Favourite
  • Fantastic Planet
  • The Lighthouse
  • The Wicker Man

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

  • Billy Budd

    ★★★½

  • Shrek the Third

    ★★½

  • Shrek 2

    ★★★½

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

    sorry but the idea that my mom and i would still be together in the rock universe makes me tear up :’)

  • Billy Budd

    Billy Budd

    ★★★½

    inserted late-night therapy session between billy and claggart felt a bit like an ao3 fic i would probably kudos and bookmark

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  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★½

    the rest of the movie never gets as interesting with its gender theory as it does in a single line: “i’m a man with no power, does that make me a woman?” 

    seems incapable of truly imagining a version of womanhood beyond the plastic dreams of corporate sponsor mattel (which was already making me think of greenblatt’s subversion and containment theory before ben mentioned that someone else on twitter made the same connection), but i always appreciate commitment to aesthetic

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    felt super eggers, but in a slightly more mainstream form than, say, the lighthouse—willem dafoe and nicholas hoult have both never looked better, and i’m glad that eggers and yorgos lanthimos have both been able to retain partial custody of them in the divorce—🐀🐀🐀—absolutely devastated to learn on arriving at the amc that i needed to pre-order coffin popcorn bucket?? is nothing sacred in this modern world?!