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Helter Skelter 2012
visually luxurious, devoted to aesthetic and girl magazine culture, layered over (what feels to me like) a rotten core. i found it v triggering but maybe that makes it good...? bc it captures my own agonised self-image, my own desires; and it punishes me for not being driven enough to get there.
(actually i realise i cannot watch this kind of movie with men because i don't trust them to get it)
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The Last Repair Shop 2023
nothing makes me cry like the brimming love in repair work and the joy of making art and music with other people
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The Wasps Are Here 1978
exploitation exists in non-capitalist systems too, although capitalism relies on and begets exploitation. and i think this film adeptly shows it —in the gendered division of labour, how Helen is shamed, how Anton profits from the other fishermen. it also critiques Weera’s final speech where he idealises the village and claims they lived in “pure primitive communism” before the young entrepreneurs arrived.
loved the pace and escalation of the film even tho it was absurd at times!! never forget how…
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Invisible City 2007
Dear Tan Pin Pin,
every time I see another work of yours it becomes my new favourite. this time I saw the seeds of your more monumental projects, like to Singapore with love, but the sentiments that underlie these works feel the same to me. you mentioned the sensibility you share with your film subjects: “a special way of seeing the present in a way as if it was already past”. labour that will only make sense decades from now.…
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