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Past Lives 2023
What do you do when the person you love has a better love story with someone else and that someone else comes back into your lover’s life?
Arthur: “You make my life so much bigger, and I’m wondering if I do the same thing for you.”
Nora: “You’re forgetting the part where I love you.”
Arthur: “I don’t forget that, I have trouble believing that sometimes.”Also, Arthur, who has learned Korean just for her:
“You dream in a language that I don’t understand. It’s like there’s this whole place inside of you where I can’t go.”Translated from by -
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 1977
Boy, this film makes any semi-recent narrative on mental illness look like a cake walk. While this film is good at what it’s trying to do, I don’t think I would ever recommend it to anyone. It’s almost uniquely good at showing us how our minds deceive us, and boy it is a far cry from that trend 90s onwards of aestheticising mental illness or only needing aesthetic subjects and depictions on screen. It’s also incredibly upsetting content, and yeah…
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Don't Worry Darling 2022
This was a let down after a lot of anticipation. The themes, imagery, and mood that the trailer sells all indicate so much potential, really seduce someone with the idea of a secret, but the film itself devolves into a series of predictable and overused tropes (really just borrowing so much that exists without building upon it at all) and the big reveal is strangely predictable from the beginning. It sucks to say this but I had an odd feeling…
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