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Perfect Days 2023
When asked why I adore movies, my simple and quick answer is “because I can take a break from reality”. Perfect Days is a brief meditative rest for weary souls, embracing the mundane rituals of daily life and appreciation of the simple wonders. Set in the most bustling city, the movie flows with its own pace and sometimes is completely still in the moment, frozen in daydream.
There’s barely any overarching plot, we follow Hirayama through a few days in…
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An Elephant Sitting Still 2018
Imagine a coming of age moment in the story, when the clock strikes past midnight and a new dawn rises, the hero’s life will change as tomorrow brings a new chapter. Now imagine if after that fateful midnight, the morning never comes. This movie shows an unapologetically bleak reality, sometimes even cruel. Still, there’s a faint promise of hope in the end. Frail it may be, but hope nonetheless.
In a single day we watch many lives change, mostly for…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Once in a while you will hear the prophecy of a genre defining movie, a milestone that other movies will be compared to and will try to copy, like The Matrix or The Dark Knight of the old days. Dune: Part Two is not one of them. It is simply too enigmatically, almost spiritually alien. This will stand as a singular monument of its own kind.
Pilgrimage through Arrakis, through all the wonders, thunderous claps and roars is quite exhausting.…
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