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  The Thing 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This freaked me out when I first saw it a long time ago. I never wanted to watch it again. Here I am having rewatched it and I’m still freaked out by it.

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  Detachment 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  This movie did not need the taking in the street kid subplot. It would’ve been fine without it. 

  Parts of this were amazing and other parts just straight up absurd.

  I’m a teacher and parts of this really resonated with me. It’s easy to fall into an us vs them mentality in teaching. I constantly have to remind myself to be unconditionally empathetic and kind to my students (even when I want to scream at them). It’s not a job…

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  Manifesto 2015

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jan 2024

  Best way to experience this work is in the exhibition space where all the screens are playing at once and you get swept up in the chaos of all the differing manifestos. Cate Blanchett plays each character so well. This is one of my go to pieces of art when I’m looking for inspiration or want a theory I can use as a launch pad to get into something deeper.

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  Talk to Me 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2023 2

  I never want to see this again (except maybe with Hayden…Hayden if you’re reading this I’ll rewatch it but only with you). It was intense and touched on themes I found personally upsetting. Phenomenal soundtrack that suited the tone. I really didn’t anticipate this to be as intense as it was. It didn’t go down stereotypical routes of possession horror films too which was refreshing i.e there wasn’t the getting in a priest to perform an exorcism trope etc. my…

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