Favorite films

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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Aug 2023

  It is an absolute blissful experience to watch this film delve into the concept of memories, the phase of life that's most precious to anyone and death. The universal approach towards the film and the man and nature similes is what attract me the most towards this film beyond any other family oriented film that i have seen in recent time.

  This is definately T. Malick's one of the most personal and experimental films that I've seen. And it's definately a one who taste improves as you savor it more than once.

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  Normal People 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2021

  It's one of those works which is predictable but as you continue to sink in the grammer of it, it holds your collar and punches you with reality and a wierd insecurity that we all have. The best part is, its raw, strongly stitched and captures the dynamics of love and life, specially the claustrophobia of loneliness and a world which comes with it where "your people" is almost non-existant. Constant parallels and ironies are drawn to show both the…

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  Bo Burnham: Inside 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Jun 2021

  It's a comic, musical, reflective, roller coaster while being contained in a room. The sense of isolation has a tremendous correlation with madness, anxiety and hopelessness with make everything more tight, just like tall Bo being stuck in a small room. The whole idea of the film revolves around the concept of an artists death for not being to work in an exile like situation of being stuck in a room. The constant feeding the beast becomes a compulsion and…

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  Bacurau 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Jun 2021

  A genre-bending, provoking Western/thriller one needs to watch specially in today's time where the message doesn't limit to Brazil but applies worldwide.

  The story is based on a fictional village called Bacurau in the near future, starting just after the matriarch's death where the local community faces a lot of problems and deaths because of a few american 'guests' in Brazil. Americans hunt the villages and try to kill everyone in the village as a sport. These white outsiders see…