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One Million Yen Girl 2008
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My kind of flick. Lowkey, a bit quirky, slice of life / hangout vibe. The concept is one that spoke to me: the protagonist Suzuko living life on her own terms and choosing to be nomadic. Moving to a new town every time she saves up enough money, not tying herself down to one area. Through her travels she meets a few supporting characters, some more eccentric than others, some with a bit of a mean streak, and finds love…
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Fruits of Passion 1981
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Visuals, costume designs, and the bizarre, twisted, almost-fairy-tale aesthetics of this drew me in alongside the premise. I was interested in seeing how the subject matter would be handled. Sadly this movie feels like kind of a nothing burger. There's tons of interesting elements here. Stephen and O's relationship reeks of Stockholm Syndrome disguised as kink and outside of some weird flashbacks and a scene near the end where O is subjected to humiliation through watching Stephen with another young…
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Anora 2024
I usually don't get hung up on ratings, top whatever lists and all that stuff because not only do my tastes constantly change, but certain movies scratch certain itches and sometimes it's hard to articulate why one movie should take precedence over the other. For instance movies that a lot of people would see as respectable choices such as Love Lies Bleeding, Didi, Horizon, Dune 2, Hit Man, Furiosa, & I Saw The TV Glow would all make the list this…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Rewatched this and everything I said pretty much still stands. However, on my second watch, I found myself mesmerized by Rebecca Ferguson and Chalamet's performances. You can see the exact moment that each of them transform, Chalamet has a monologue in the third act that will be burned into my mind for the rest of the year and even before he starts speaking there is just a sudden shift in energy just through his physicality. I felt like I was…
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