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(500) Days of Summer 2009
There’s a lot of cheap and easy xennial cringe in this movie. And it’s slow, despite the unique framing. Maybe it was beloved at the time because of its somewhat experimental approach to the genre - and also probably Zooey Deschanel - but tbh it’s a bit dated. There’s some cute performances and compelling sequences but the movie as a whole is brought down by its lesser elements. The stock characters are grating, setting is uninspired, and there’s an underlining man-centrism to the film that gets old real quick. If anything, at least it seemed to open the floodgates for other, better indie romcom dramadies to follow.
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The Brutalist 2024
My god I love how it’s shot and some awesome performances wow. But overall I didn’t really connect with it that deeply - there’s a lot of going on thematically, lots of ideas around trauma, identity, art, prejudice, capitalism, America, etc. but I’m not really sure all of them really hit, nor positions I totally agree with. And there’s an arty-wank ambiguity to this film that starts to drag after 3hrs+. Still an experience but not for me.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012
Rewatched this again; it’s a movie from another time and culture - so many moments, aesthetics and feelings that felt very fresh and relevant once upon a time now seem bygone. Thats not a bad thing though, it’s like visiting old tumblr pages on the way back machine - very twee and sentimental, overly nostalgic, sometimes transgressive, sometimes cringe, but also sincere. And kinda like tumblr, it mean’t lot to a lot of lonely people.
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