Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed…we will never be here again.
- Brad Pitt, Troy
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Mickey 17 2025
“Out there, the entire universe and she’s nowhere to be found”
“I have to stop feeling guilty, it’s ok for me to feel happy”
Jolly time. It’s not crazy or anything that’ll make you think too deeply but it touches subtly on a lot of little themes, that afflict our life. Life, death, trauma, gluttony, and much more.
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The Brutalist 2024
“No matter what the authors try and sell you, it is the destination not the journey”
I don’t agree with a couple things throughout this film, interestingly enough one of those things is the quote above. But yet I like it.
I find solace in that contradiction, or a much more positive outlook is viewing it as complements. At the high level of the film you have this brutalist architecture style which is the creme de la creme of our…
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Stalker 1979
“Prison? I’m imprisoned everywhere”
“If there were no sorrow in our lives, it wouldn’t be better it would be worse. Because then there would be no happiness either. And there’d be no hope.”
What a trip this film takes you through. I think this final dialogue done with the viewer sums a lot of what this journey through the Zone shows to us. In the beginning we meet each of the three characters who will take up this journey and…
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Ikiru 1952
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“ Ecce homo ‘Behold the man.’ This man bears a cross called cancer. He’s Christ. If you were diagnosed with cancer, you’d start dying right away. But not this fellow. That’s when he started living.”
Kurosawa captures the deafening scare of death being at your doorstep all too well. From scenes where watanabe stares blankly with glassy eyes, or being in traffic yet hearing no sound. Everything renders our perspective on this poor man’s life so well. The themes touched…Translated from by