Hi, I'm Rey. I see films as kōans. Rather than judge them, I prefer to excavate their hidden depths.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Sometimes I listen to binaural beats, which I play underneath Muzak. While my conscious mind is reacting to the Muzak, the binaural beats are working their way through my unconscious (or so I’m told).
The Zone of Interest feels like a perverse version of binaural beats in which two films are making their way through your consciousness simultaneously. Glazer has described the film as consisting of “film one” (the one you see, about Nazis) and “film two” (the one you…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
when I was in high school in 2012, I was angry and confused and paul thomas anderson was angry and confused and I liked him for that.
now paul thomas anderson is a man changed by love. not sappy movie love, the kind that smooths over all rough edges, but the realistic love of weird, aggressive people finding someone just as weird and aggressive to spar with.
in other words, PTA has entered his Dad phase. I couldn't be happier.…
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I'm Still Here 2024
I watch I'm Still Here, a film about the horrors of a military dictatorship, exactly as my home country lurches into a completely preventable form of dictatorship.
Living around generally closed-minded people, I have to find myself constantly reminding others that it's going to get so much worse than we can even imagine right now. I don't like being the prophet of doom, but I refuse to be shocked by anything this administration does. We can see it coming, and…
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