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Favorite films

  • Coraline
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Girl, Interrupted
  • Black Swan

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  • Life After Beth

    ★★

  • (500) Days of Summer

    ★★★★★

  • Juno

    ★★★★★

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★½

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  • (500) Days of Summer

    (500) Days of Summer

    ★★★★★

    Summer: I just... I just woke up one day and I knew.

    Tom: Knew what?

    Summer: What I was never sure of with you.

    This exchange breaks my heart every single time. It captures the painful, subjective nature of love — how it exists so differently in everyone’s heart and through everyone’s eyes. (500) Days of Summer gracefully shows that some people simply aren’t meant to be, even when love is present. Tom tries so hard to belong in Summer’s…

  • Juno

    Juno

    ★★★★★

    Gosh, there’s something so beautifully bittersweet about this movie — so young, so raw, so unmistakably 16. It captures the twists and turns, the highs and lows of teenagehood with a kind of honesty that feels rare and deeply relatable. As someone who had a young mother, I can’t help but wish this was how her story went — that she found innocent love and we went our separate ways, with nothing but warmth and understanding between us.

    This film…

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  • Coraline

    Coraline

    ★★★★★

    Where do I even begin? I truly believe this film has shaped the person I am today. It didn’t disturb me — it awakened something in me. A curiosity. A spark deep inside that longed for the supernatural, for an understanding of the unknown. This film wasn’t just entertainment; it was a source of comfort.

    I have so many vivid memories of turning to it throughout my childhood — after difficult encounters with my mother or when the nostalgia of…

  • Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted

    ★★★★★

    This beautiful film is very dear to me, a key to my lock. It is a film that understands the inner fibres of my being and something that heals loneliness. It shows the ups and downs of life while showing the connections we make, the pain of leaving and the pain of coming. while also showing what we do to escape our physical boundaries and what manifests in our minds.

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