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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Really perplexed with this one here. Slow devestation of identity and dreams. But at the cost of what? to birth what? dreams again. it’s some resurrection. Newfound or profound? The Israelites find their new land to go “home” to. 

  No one does America better than the non-Americans/foreigners themselves. (Until and unless, Americans accept and accept to look at their own past and history with no blind eye)

  Epilogue is great, for not the contrary’s sake. It lends itself, as much…

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  I am trying to lean back to another Mike Leigh film I watched some time back (Secrets and Lies) and I find myself asking the same thing here as well, after watching it - how do we want to open up ourselves? who do we open up about ourselves as? Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the most sensational performance, a tour de force! The other cast members surrounding her take in with that same magnitude, reservations of resistance or for resistance. Sometimes, from resistance.

Popular reviews

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Le Samouraï 1967

  Watched 15 Jul 2024

  Checking off a pretty big blindspot from my watchlist.
  Alain Delon is sexy, just like how he sounds with Dalida in "Paroles, paroles". Gosh, do I love that song. But really, cannot think of anybody else other than Delon who could have had taken this role.

  Some great portraits of Jef all throughout, striking, solid, unsentimental yet even the melancholy. Absolutely striking frames. 

  Sensational.

  
  (PS: Taking Christopher's recommendation of restarting my letterboxd journal. Though I am pretty darn lazy to log all the films I watched, I might just carry on from here and log what I watch in the future.)