Favorite films

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  Crazy Thunder Road 1980

  Watched 08 Jan 2025

  Riding through the industrial wreckage at many miles per hour, wreaking havoc everywhere it goes, at the sound of punk rock music flowing through the metallic veins of the bikers.

  
  
  

  Radicalism is at the core of Crazy Thunder Road. Punks fueled by anarchism and counterculture, constantly fighting, directly or indirectly, against the authoritarian state attempting to constrict the movement, right-wing nationalists recruiting disillusioned people, offering "relative safety" and combat training in exchange for losing their defining characteristics as individuals and…

Recent reviews

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  A.I. Mama 2020

  Watched 01 Mar 2025

  A computer can never fully capture the emotions of humanity.

  A genuine love-letter to Tetsuo: The Iron Man, capturing the frantic energy of it, but whereas that film revels in the abstract metallic chaos (to great results), A.I. Mama is more content on pouring layers of human emotion on top of its monochrome steel (to great results, too).

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  Man 2012

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  I was forced to watch this and Happiness back to back on history class.

  "We live in a society" tier metaphors on capitalism with no actual interest in proposing a solution to the problem and only in revelling in its own nihilism bordering on misanthropy.

Popular reviews

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  Fantastic Planet 1973

  Watched 06 Dec 2024

  While watching Fantastic Planet, I felt echoes of some of my favorite pieces of media, including ones so stylistically foundational to my life like Machinarium, In The Court of the Crimson King and Star Wars. I'd also like to mention Dr Seuss and even Xenogears.

  
  Maybe it's just the fact that I love when science fiction explores alien worlds and attempt to create a truly otherworldly atmosphere.

  
  
  

  
  It feels like such a large universe with endless opportunities.

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  Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Dec 2024

  This is actually about someone who's so obsessed with The Adventure of Denchu Kozo he cosplays himself as one of the cyborg vampires from it and plays with Tomorowo Taguchi pretending he's doing those awesome chase sequences from Denchu Kozo in real life.