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  Tampopo 1985

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  a fever dream if I was Asian and owned a ramen shop

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  A Real Pain 2024

  Watched 01 Mar 2025 4

  I really liked this
  It started out quite funny and eased into more and more emotional depth. The two cousins both struggling, and their opposites reflected in each other. The conflict between resilience and sensitivity is one that I think we all have to find a balance with. Too much resilience and you become numb and bottled up, and too much sensitivity and you let everything in and the world starts to eat you alive. But I think both in…

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  Vagabond 1985

  Watched 01 Sep 2024 2

  Part way through, while thinking ahead to my Letterboxd rating & review, I had a crisis. I started to question whether judgement is a good thing. What does it mean to judge something to be good or bad? I think a judgement is often more a reflection of the person doing the judging than of the qualities of that which is being judged, i.e how the object being judged resonates with the many aspects of someone's philosophy and world view. So…

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  Bicycle Thieves 1948

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2024 2

  One thing I'm learning in my film class this semester is that a film is almost always, consciously or not, a response to or a reflection of the things happening during the period of its creation (social and political movements, emotions of the general population, fears for the future, etc.). Bicycle thieves is an allegory for post-war Italy. There is a residual feeling of anxiety and sadness hanging over the people in the film, and the main character is made…

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