Elly Sommerville

Elly Sommerville

Favorite films

  • Eddie and the Cruisers
  • Barbie and the Diamond Castle
  • Princess Mononoke

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  • Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

  • The Batman

    ★★★½

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  • Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic

    Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic

    Twigs and Scraggles!!!

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

    Movie about trans allegory where the mc has my dead name? Sign me up lol
    Really though I cried three times. It feels like a very important work; even my cis friends were shook. 
    The use of liminal space and analog horror is very entertaining. Parts of the Pink Opaque feel like creepy pasta formats of unsettling or forgotten kids shows. Overall, very internet feel. 
    It makes me evaluate the friendships I had growing up that were possibly queer; in…

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  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★★

    The reoccurring instances of the economically oppressed being underground really speaks to the struggle of capitalism. Mr park discusses
    having mr Kim not “cross the line” even though he benefits from and induces grounding living pressures on the working class; crossing a figurative line at the ground surface.  Geun-sae suggests that many people live underground if you count half basements, which reveals scale of subjugation. The economically hyper privileged own fiefdoms of capital and human labor in their businesses and…

  • Cyber Bandits

    Cyber Bandits

    This is literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Sexist, racist, with very few redeeming qualities. Only a few of the cheap sets were cool, everything else was a dumpster fire of an allegory of the American Boot experience in the pacific.

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