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Cemetery of Splendor 2015
Apichatpong’s films always feel like an experience I need time to sit with. There’s a lot I didn’t understand—lots of references to Thai culture—and much I did understand.
An in-between. It feels like waking up from a nap at golden hour
Perhaps that’s the intended nature of his films. Something to simply experience.
Love to appreciate the tender, queer undertones present in his work. Although nothing gets me more than the slow and drawn out shots Apichatpong is noted for.
I always feel so fulfilled after watching, like I’ve been given space to breathe
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Climax 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This movie was notable because it reaffirmed my recent thought that just because a movie is labeled arthouse, experimental or good, doesn’t mean it’s good..
The director presents to you topics of RAPE, INCEST, CHILD DEATH, SUICIDE, MISCARRIAGE and SELF HARM on a masturbatory platter.Female trauma and sexuality are tools for plot and male pleasure—an OVERUSED tactic that is eternally TIRING to witness in cinema. There is no male equivalency of “worst nightmare” in Climax that we see like that of the…
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The Graduate 1967
Great directing. Wish I could articulate the details I appreciated but the feeling is there!
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Poor Things 2023
The “self empowerment” of a “woman” with newfound autonomy, through sex, is an inherently overdone and tiring trope
But the literal infantilization of her character translates this movie into even lesser than that
Making it overdone, tiring and creepy
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The Cheetah Girls 2003
I really am the way that I am because of this movie, shit eats every time
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