Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
i loved that each of the animated films was given its context, as context is unavoidable in the other films. these stories do not happen independent of the genocide, they are cut through, framed, and founded by it
from the beginning i had a lot of resistance because i felt like this was going to be a movie that's like "hey you should just enjoy working and monotony until you die because leaves are pretty" and because we see hirayama take shit from people in a way that feels like its romanticizing a certain Japanese work ethic through a heavily western gaze. i tried to keep an open mind because we see a nod to a self that…
like one long music video, sustaining you in electrifying possibility and joy, with that one piece of reality always gnawing at your tail. this felt so true to what it's like to be a young artist, to have your hunger and grief in moments preclude sound judgement. i was so there for the highs, i couldn't stop smiling at how well they captured that feeling of creating with other musicians, the rare experience of being tapped into something outside yourself,…