Siwei

Siwei

The only social media account I am able to manage

Favorite films

  • Parasite
  • Ex Machina
  • Green Room
  • Thelma

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  • The Blue Drum

  • You Hurt My Feelings

    ★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★½

  • Friends with Money

    ★★★

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  • You Hurt My Feelings

    You Hurt My Feelings

    ★★

    Just another thing that proves nice wyt ppl are just lying to you, like all the time. 

    Holofcener’s movies are so specific to the upper middle class, upper westside home owning whites with liberal arts/academia backgrounds, I’m not sure if I find them at all relatable. It’s low stake and inoffensive like lukewarm water. I don’t mind a slow burn and love myself a dramady like Force Majeure by Östlund (made with perhaps half of the budget), I just need…

  • The Blue Drum

    The Blue Drum

    Oh mother mother mother mother

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  • Expats

    Expats

    ★★★

    Controversy aside, honestly... I don't know how the bar got so low, but I'm just relieved that the actors cast as native Cantonese can speak the language without it coming across as complete jibberish to my ear even though chatpgt can prob write better Cantonese dialogues, which leads to my usual nitpick with Lulu Wang... she's so close to getting to the core of something real and something true about the culture. The visuals, the details, they're there...and then something…

  • Ronny Chieng: Speakeasy

    Ronny Chieng: Speakeasy

    Now I feel weird about reviewing comedy lol


    P.S. the popularity of Mr Bean in Asia is no joke, besides anime shit, we were deadass raised on Mr. Bean and Tom & Jerry.