I wanted to watch something that felt appropriate for grief, and this movie kept coming into my head, even though I never thought of it as that kind of film. It’s a favourite, regardless. always experience something new when I watch this. this time I thought a lot about Ashitaka’s mission to ‘see unclouded by hate’. I don’t think I’m convinced that Ashitaka’s tolerance is the right path, but stuck between everyone’s anger and conceit, his attitude of universal compassion…
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La Chimera 2023
A Chthonic journey into grief and the post-apocalypse of memory. For people who prefer remembering everything that’s lost to living above ground. Josh O’Connor is just gorgeous in this
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
They did godzilla moby dick. surprisingly tense thematically: I should have had faith that everything would resolve with peaceful liberal normalcy, but for a brief moment I really considered the possibility that this film would end with a triumphant, redemptive kamikaze charge. Pulling some familiar moves, this movie retreats at its end away from the more subversive themes it handles throughout its runtime. Godzilla is the embodiment of war guilt. Not the guilt of having done harm to others, but…
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Uncut Gems 2019
bimonthly rewatch yeah it fucks. The magic of the opal and how it interlinks the underlying labour w all the bourgeois opulence of adam sandler’s and kevin garnet’s ways of life..kevin garnet is a really underrated part of this movie especially the ‘this is how I win’ part. idk just love this movie
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