Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Someone, Somewhere 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Oct 2020

  There's something about films on urban loneliness that really sticks to me. I remember this book (which I haven't finished) where Olivia Laing writes that loneliness is a populated place, a city in itself. What she did next was to map that loneliness, to truly understand it, and what it truly means to be lonely.

  Mapping loneliness; mapping it as a populated place and finding one's place in it, I think this film delicately captured that. The whole film sort…

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  Distance 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Sep 2020

  Oh, THAT scene. Can I just take a moment to appreciate how good that scene was shot? Imagine being so angry and frustrated at a person and she's like... nowhere in the frame? Like, where is she? Where? Where did she go? Is she still there? Is she still here? Why is she here? It makes it more frustrating, the fact that we, the audience, can't even see her too, kinda like the same way her family doesn't even know…

Popular reviews

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  2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2020

  Loved the political undertones in this: the experience of being blindly fascinated with someone or something with barely enough reasons why, feeling like a huge part of one's life was suddenly erased and altered by a dominant force, and this enormous desire to possess the other, or at least, be an equal.

  How can we remove something that's been so deeply ingrained? How could we undo these feelings we didn't even tell ourselves to feel? What does real liberation look like? Is it in that final subversive act of facing them, eye-to-eye, entirely stripped off and naked?

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  The Truth 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2020

  Ah, the many faces of truth, told in a book, in a film, and in memories of a mother and her daughter both revolving around these very sources of "truth." This was such an exercise in perspective, and I really loved the way Kore-eda used these devices to dissect these intricate relationships the characters shared, and at the same time, inspect their own versions of truth.

  It's so amusing how the repeated line: "You can't trust memory" sounded so sad…