Favorite films

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  White Noise 2022

  ★★ Watched 05 Jan 2023

  this movie predictably couldn’t capture the genius of delillo - you can’t replicate the rhythm nor depth of amazing prose in a novel with a movie and you shouldn’t even try to. weird casting, some of my favorite characters were missing and the tone was completely off. still fun to watch tho

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  Love Exposure 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2022 1

  the shortest (very) long movie i have watched probably ever. you blink and three hours will have passed. so fucking good and insane - my heart was erect the whole time. the exact opposite of the austere minimalism i usually love about japanese cinema, but holy fuck this was a roller coaster that i wish never ended. thank you to letterboxd user: @kwvictor for the recommendation.

Popular reviews

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  In the Absence 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2022

  "When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries…

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  Emperor Tomato Ketchup 1971

  ★★ Added

  children in klan robes chasing adults with shovels, children playing table tennis with a naked, dead adult as the net, children committing sex and war crimes against adults over a game of rock-paper-scissors; i'm honestly shocked that this was legal to make. i think i need a japanese film professor to properly historicize this to fully understand the director's take on japanese postwar politics. can't really recommend anyone to watch this - any normal, not film-brain poisoned person would be pretty repulsed i feel like. but if you are an absolute freak maybe give it a try

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