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The Boy and the Heron 2023
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Miyazaki rocks as always. The opening hits like ten punches in one go. Mum dies. Moving. Another early moment that hits very hard for me was when his aunt, Natsuko, btw arriving in the scene super pretty-ly, and she is so nice, but it’s quite shocking (even if you know what happens already) when she puts Mahito’s hand on her pregnant belly and tells him out of the blue that this is to be his brother or sister. To a…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
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- Love how the protagonist keeps saying ‘one part of the whole story’ throughout the whole movie. Love that it’s a complex case of a relationship. Two married people who treated each other like mere roommates. (I’m doing this, already done this; my part done; what about yours?) Should’ve divorced to not cause each other’s misery. Co-dependency can turn this bad—lesson learned.
- The choice to play P.I.M.P. like that in the first scene really worked to get on my…Translated from by
