Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I understood all of Mulholland Drive on my first watch and that makes me better than you.
Au revoir, letterboxd!
Folks, I'm alright. Nothing's happened to me. I just feel exhausted from Letterboxd. It's game-ified cinema for me, turned it into a quest of collecting films to add to an evergrowing catalogue, turned it into a checklist, or a collage of faded posters on a filmography as I try to make it all fade away (yes I have fade watched films on!). Ultimately, I wasn't watching cinema for emotion, nor for passion (maybe they're the same thing?),…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Blade Runner (1982) was an eerie prediction about the dystopia we're finding ourselves moving towards every day. A story of the supposed non-humans displaying more humanity than the actual humans, the plight of those deemed lesser by the techno-capitalist hellscape's rulers. The Replicants' short life span was a clear metaphor for how the higher echelons of society and the pompous jackasses see anyone lower than them as disposable labor and tools with a short life span, a life span which…
One half existential rumination on the pursuit of knowledge by man and the consequences of it, how discoveries made by man spin out of control and take a life of their own. One half Thriller on why the US is a disloyal, sick fucking country