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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  January 15, 2025

  ---Libidinal Anxieties, or, the Labyrinth of Desire---

  David Lynch's Lost Highway is deeply Freudian-Lacanian in its psychosexual themes, particularly the anxiety of fidelity, the fragmentation of identity, and the power of the gaze. Lynch's films often present reality as structured by unconscious desires, and Lost Highway is no exception—it operates like a psychoanalytic case study of repression, doubling, and the inability to integrate trauma.

  Lost Highway is not a film that explains—it seduces, disorients, and ultimately disintegrates…

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  The Beast 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Feb 2025

  What is the Beast?
  
  In La Bête, "the Beast" functions as a shifting and ambiguous symbol, but a Žižekian-Lacanian reading might suggest that it represents:

  the Real and the Return of Repressed Desire –
  In a Lacanian sense, the Beast can be understood as the traumatic kernel of desire and fear that Gabrielle cannot fully integrate into her conscious, Symbolic world. Across multiple timelines, she is haunted by a force that exceeds rational comprehension, much like how the Real always…

Popular reviews

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  Heaven Knows What 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2024

  This film serves as a brutal, unrelenting interrogation of the subjectivity of unhoused opiate addicts—a cinematic dissection of lives structured by addiction, a condition that is less a choice and more a fatalistic trap woven into the fabric of late capitalist despair. The addict wakes not with hope or purpose but with an all-consuming hatred—a hatred of themselves, of their dependency, of the crushing machinery of the world that permits no exit except the temporary, lethal solace of the next…

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2024

  ~Everybody needs to have seen this under the influence of LSD at least once in their lives

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