SarahLynn

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Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Tangled

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  • They Came Together

    ★★★★½

  • Connection | Isolation

    ★★★★½

  • Dark City

    ★★★

  • Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls

    ½

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  • They Came Together

    They Came Together

    ★★★★½

    I watched this a decade ago and I remember liking it, but since becoming a big fan of The State and a bigger appreciator of absurdism overall, this is truly up my alley.

  • Connection | Isolation

    Connection | Isolation

    ★★★★½

    I was invited to watch this for free as part of its festival screening tour and, wow, this is a perspective that is so rare in prominent media and so refreshing to see captured here.

    Like many documentaries about the ongoing pandemic, the title alludes to the connection and isolation that lockdowns caused. However, this film inclusively expands that idea of isolation as it turns its lens toward how many people still face isolation today, as society in its desire…

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  • Twelve Monkeys

    Twelve Monkeys

    ★★★½

    Fellow Covid conscious viewers will see ourselves in the shoes of James Cole, desperately trying to convince our neighbors that stopping a virus is better than letting it run rampant and feeling like we are losing our minds doing it.

    On a lighter note, "are you mentally divergent, friend?" is going to be my new greeting.

    Please wear a mask!

  • Cabaret

    Cabaret

    ★★★★

    I really, supremely hate that I can draw the parallels to society today.

    Sally, Brian, Maximillian, they represent people insulated by privilege and indifference to the horrible fascism manifesting itself around them. Their lives go on as normally and everyone else is either drawn into the lure of fascism or suffers greatly under it.