stchatham

stchatham

Favorite films

  • Yi Yi
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • Relic

    ★★★★

  • Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

  • Persona

    ★★★★½

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    ★★★★★

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  • Relic

    Relic

    ★★★★

    I was expecting a horror movie, but instead got more of a surrealistic meditation of life (death and decline). 
    Bizarrely beautiful.

  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    Synecdoche: the whole is referred to by just a part. But it can also refer to a part of the whole.

    Caden (St); all of his (my) fears, all of the things he’s (I’m) afraid of, at the end came true, because we can get so obsessed with that, that finally normalize and romanticize it, at the point that actually becomes part of us, even if it seems so far yet, it doesn’t because always being in us. Also, he…

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  • Persona

    Persona

    ★★★★½

    (Sometimes) speaking means saying things that do not correspond to what we think.

    This film shows us how a person can have different personalities depending on the various individuals who know him; and this doesnt (or does) affect the image that you have of yourself. There is the personality that you want to project to others, but ultimately it doesnt matter, but the image that others have of you; that is what you really are. The 'persona' is a collective commitment between himself and society.

    Jungian archetype

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