Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Event Horizon 1997

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  The Ali-yss-raiser

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  1. This might be the only film that I liked which had *annoying* cinematography. Especially the close ups, of which there are a lot: felt claustrophobia inducing rather than intimate. Feels like context is being weirdly cut out, which is what the film also feels like.

  2. 2013 type online LDR where they watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind over Skype. No wonder the extremely online loved it smh.

  3. My bad, I love the white loser gamer husband insecure about not being an interesting character in her story....

Popular reviews

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  They Live 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2023

  "The golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules"

  I got to know about They Live through clips of Slavoj ZiZek's "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"(2012) back in 2016 or so. Zizek was huge then, and Pervert's Guide was widely known in the circles I was in, for better or worse. It was described succinctly by Zizek and discussed at length by everyone else.

  I was intrigued by the film —this supposed exploration of "ideology"— but the abundance…

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  Hum Tum 2004

  ★★ Rewatched 10 Jan 2024

  Watching it again I realise that Hum Tum is an annoying film that is best seen as a precursor to Love Aaj Kal (2009): complete with the Dilli to foreign to Dilli timeskips, Quirky Saif who reforms himself, Rishi Kapoor as father figure, the heroine's marriage not working out, and a above all a try at working through the half-westernised relationship mores of the upper class that came of age post-liberalisation.

  Hum Tum (2004) stumbled awkwardly so Love Aaj Kal (2009) could walk assuredly.