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Recent reviews

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  Stalker 1979

  Watched 15 Dec 2024

  I feel like I need to rewatch this movie another time to actually give it the credit it probably deserves.

  The dialog and visuals are great, but I have to admit that the slow pace made me really impatient at some points.

  I was thinking about how today's society makes us do everything so terribly fast and frantically. And also about the fact that films or the story in films are becoming faster too, i.e. scenes are shorter and are…

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  Magnolia 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024

  Among other things, this movie talks about remorse and forgiveness.
  I think some people deserve forgiveness more than others... and some don't deserve it at all. But maybe I'm just not as good a person as Jim Kurring.

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  [any man who says “(pretty) girls should always smile” deserves to die.]

  The subject of this movie is so damn close to my inner self that it almost felt painful. And somehow that's exactly what it's all about: aches and pains, agony and suffering. It's ugly and cruel, definitely lonely and unforgiving. Yes, physically, but above all mentally.

  Something about: being stuck between extremes and forgetting yourself in the process.

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2024

  I grieve for something and mourn something that was never mine to begin with and perhaps never will be - to love and not to be allowed to love, or never love in the first place?

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