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  Clouds 2025

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  grief, in the eyes of a kid, is like watching clouds gather — slow at first, soft and harmless, just wisps drifting lazily across the sky. but before you know it, they’ve thickened, swallowing the blue and making everything feel colder.

  and yet, kids know something about clouds that adults often forget: if you lie down and watch long enough, you start to see shapes — a face, a hand, a memory you thought you’d lost. grief doesn’t just take;…

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  Champ Green 2025

  Watched 19 Mar 2025 2

  this feels too familiar — like a story you’ve heard before, yet still hits close to home. clyde gamale has that rare gift of a regional filmmaker — someone who knows how to capture the heart of places often overlooked. growing up in the province makes you notice the smallest things — the way chismis travels faster than habal-habal rides, or how names like pedit and jengjeng feel like they belong to everyone and no one at the same time.…

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  Still 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jul 2023

  i forgot how being young and carefree and innocent and reckless can be SO hard and complicated too

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  Past Lives 2023

  Rewatched 12 Aug 2024

  The beauty of Past Lives doesn't come from what happens to its characters, but what their stories reveal within us. The main theme of the film hinges on coming to terms with the decisions we've made.

  If you watched the film expecting something big to happen, like Nora leaving Arthur for Hae Sung (something I'm guilty of), ask yourself, why? Why are you so keen on having Nora leave her current path for something in the past? Could it be…

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