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  On Falling 2024

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  If Severance was honest and about the lower-class, it would be this.

  Depressing to think how a quiet, fatally dangerous end is a single misstep away.

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Hate myself for not being able to take this in fully because of my shit ears and the film demands a lot of focus on conversations.

  Would've been much more of a banger if I had never read Tantei Gakuen Q.

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  Monkey Man 2024

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  There is something deeply ironic about using a monarch-serving mythological figure to represent a hero of the oppressed.

  The ending goes really hard, though. Funny how you can always guess which side is the one to desire "the end of the cycle of violence".

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  "You dreamt of me?"
  "No, I thought of you."

  Dreaming is something you don't do consciously. You dream of something fleeting, passing and momentary. You dream of things that you could perhaps only hope to come true. Thinking, on the other hand, is conscious. It is volitional, affirmative and resolute. No, she didn't dream of her; she thought of her: It was as real as it could be. It was quietly but forcefully burning red--boiling heat. It was reality, second…

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