Entertaining but not groundbreaking. I would say this was disappointing but it was exactly what I expected. I had no interest in watching this based off the trailer but once I heard it won awards I thought maybe I underestimated it. Turns out it was as predictable and one dimensional as I thought. The main difference between the trailer and the rest of the movie is that they scream “motherfucker” even more times. This was fun to watch but in…
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Poor Things 2023
Towards the beginning of the film there is a line about all men’s sexuality being immoral. It put a pit in my stomach early on and it only worsened from there. The obvious and overly in-your-face message of women’s power, liberation, and freedom lying within sex and sleeping with men (especially gross ones who according to the old pimp lady “like that you don’t enjoy it”) is such an overdone, tired, and exhaustingly patriarchal take on feminism, which turns out…
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Y Tu Mamá También 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I recently watched this for the second time. It was beautiful the first time but even more this time. Knowing throughout the film what Luisa is going through changes the entire perspective as you watch. It was hard not to feel (and be overcome by) her pain throughout their trip. I couldn’t stop imagining everything she was feeling in each moment. It struck me that multiple times the narrator mentions how one of the characters felt or experienced something deeply…
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