Spider_lily

Spider_lily

Don't take the ratings too seriously.

Favorite films

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  • The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • Days of Heaven
  • His Girl Friday

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  • Some Like It Hot

    ★★★★

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    ★★★★½

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★½

  • Woman in the Dunes

    ★★★★½

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★

    The shadow of "Call Me by Your Name". Such a pathetic, insecure, old, but adolescent (the needle drops really drive this), vulnerable, lonely, self-loathing and lustful man. Looking for connection in all the wrong places. Yearning. Self-destructive. Alienated. Looking in awe at another man (Drew Starkley looks very much like a handsome young man from the 50s, holy shit). Wanting to merge with someone, but it doesn't quite work. Not in the long term. Disembodied. A deeply sad affair. What…

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    ★★★★½

    This movie is for the young boy inside us all. Cool how it's the Yang to the original's Yin - and AI now is set to be a tool to serve humanity. If that truck chase scene is not the coolest thing your eyeballs have ever seen, I don't know what to tell you. THE action blockbuster of its era. Often imitated, but never duplicated.

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  • El Conde

    El Conde

    ½

    I only lasted 30 minutes - this film is a giant misunderstanding. Which is a shame because the concept is pretty interesting - drawing parallels between the international bourgeois and vampirism. Not original in the slightest, but it's something! Unfortunately, all we get is how the people who rule us are soo stupid, amarite? It's like I watched a Chilean Taika Waititi movie. Obnoxious humor. Doesn't say anything about the political or economic situation of the people of Chile at…

  • Strawman

    Strawman

    ★½

    Catholic propaganda. Every catholic - poor martyr, every communist - irredeemably evil. Reminds me that Kraków is trad-cath central. Which is a shame, because the cinematography is great, especially the colored shot of the Wyspiański's stained glass window of God the Father is spectacular (I would even argue this is better than the Schindler's List one). Wish all the philosophical conversations about the nature of good and evil and faith actually amounted to something. And what even were these female characters?