A genuinely great, downbeat subversion of the fairytale narrative and it’s tropes. Ani’s character is ladened with a sort of at-any-cost survivalism; at first glance one would expect a stripper/sex worker of any caliber to know better than to trust that a man promising her the world wouldn’t just throw her away like yesterday’s newspaper. I believe she does love Vanya, and her actions aren’t just to secure her future or to get with a rich guy— but instead to…
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Poor Things 2023
Up there with one of the weirdest found family films out there. I am so surprised that I didn’t hate this— the premise alone had me skeeved out for months, yet in all honesty, I loved this film. Very lynchian at some parts, the shoddy CGI and stylistic choices made the film feel patchwork in its own way, the story is uncomfortably endearing, it is bizarre, incredibly weird, but lovely at times
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A Clockwork Orange 1971
If I said this was one of my favorite films I will be put on a watchlist
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