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Favorite films

  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Memories of Murder

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  • Green Fish

    ★★★★

  • The Witch

    ★★★½

  • Red Desert

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

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  • The Handmaiden

    The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

    extended edition 🔥

  • No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    ★★★★★

    i'm sad that they don't have the shot of anton reflected in llewelyn's tv as one of the background options for this movie. probably my favorite shot here

    i don't know if this is a common reaction to this, but i was very teary eyed throughout the last few scenes. this movie is so often compared to there will be blood that i tend to think of them as a pair, and my reactions to them make a snug pair…

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    felt purpose-built for me which i imagine will be a very common reaction to this. definitely felt a lot of myself in how this displays a twisted blood tie with the media we consume, with the people we know who consume it, how it is simultaneously a lifeblood and a total mind killer. for me it’s more a kaleidoscope of media that i feel this way about but the closest analog is maybe twin peaks? which has simultaneously saved my…

  • The Piano Teacher

    The Piano Teacher

    ★★★★★

    total inability to communicate and connect with anyone around you, no matter how much you want or crave it. nobody can see that though - i don’t think that’s a type of pain that is visible to the eye of another. and then you get close to someone, and you open yourself, and it ends, because you can’t know what love is to anyone. you fucked up. you are too far gone, and no matter the pain you endure as consequence, you deserve it