shayen27

shayen27

Favorite films

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  • The Shining
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • The Butcher Boy

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★½

    First half: set the stage for potentially one of the greatest films of the first quarter of the Twenty-First Century. The struggle of a dispossessed Holocaust survivor, László and an unlikely career breakthrough. The obstacles that he faced; trauma, antisemitism, poverty, addiction.

    Second half: disjointed. The revelation of the true nature of Harrison was a strength; once again László is a victim of bourgeois Civilisation, this time, the American strand that sees itself as the zenith of human existence. The…

  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

    This film gave me vertigo which is a sign of something good

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★

    A film for all the feelers. The dialogue in Lublin between the tour group stood out. Benjy, like Fiona Apple, wants to feel everything. David, overcome with the prostration that potentially comes with feeling everything, poses the need for a selective feeling approach. In a world full of injustice and violence, which has been par for the course since the dawn of the 20th century, we are one of the few generations who are bombarded with the reality of constant violence; the morality question of how to process the world that we live in is a worthwhile and necessary one.

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    A very good ballad of a thin man, portrayed by my very best friend, Timmy C

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