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Grizzly Man 2005
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This really gets at the idea that we all lie to ourselves to justify our actions, though not usually as theatrically as Timothy Treadwell. Usually.
The exact moment he lost me was when he diverted the channel to create the artificial salmon run — he can claim all he wants that he’s trying to protect the bears from human interference, but he clearly has a bias just like everyone else does. Does his being towards the bears instead of against…
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Black Bag 2025
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Cannot express to you the giddy glee I felt when I realized the movie was going to end with a whodunnit-style explanation of their deductions
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Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
This is one of my favorite tweets and the last twenty minutes of this movie get at that same feeling. It is startling how little time it can take for someone to completely turn your life on its head
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
I will never get tired of the kind of romance where both parties try so hard to be so carefully controlled, and yet…
Somehow a hand gets touched here, a slightly too-earnest complement is given there. The strict rules they’ve placed on themselves keep bending — never fully broken, but continuously chipped away at, piece by piece, until one day they aren’t there anymore and they’re left staring at each other for the first time with nothing in between, simultaneously wondering how they had gotten there and how it had taken so long
Tl;dr: there is no force on earth disciplined enough to combat true yearning
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