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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I enjoyed it. I suffered through the second half, to the film's merit and its masterful use of trivial and even funny moments to further underscore the tragedy in trying to fight against a system and the people it favours.

  That said, the film commits the same sin it blames society about: caring about Anora only as a prostitute/erotic dancer and not a person. It gives us this character but does not bother to flesh her out: her being of…

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  The Bridges of Madison County 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  A sad and beautiful tale of a woman who discovers she misses freedom after meeting a man who lives without the same attachments she is oppressed by, and has to make a tragic decision between what she must do and what she wants to do.

  I loved it, and I am amazed by Meryl Streep's subtle but effective foreign accent, not often do movies try to be linguistically believable.

  My biggest problem is the rather big age gap, there certainly exist free men (even some already divorced) who are Streep's age (or oppressed women who are Eastwood's)...

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  This movie was fun! The exploration parts felt solid, the humour was goofy but worked... The director clearly wanted to kill nazis, and bent the movie to make it happen, which I found in itself a great joke.

  Its biggest problem is its treatment of the only female character: first, Indiana seduces her almost robotically, almost by instinct, as if he were fulfilling his role as a man, or something like that. Then, not much romance happens, other than having…

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