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A Silent Day 1999
No shape. No form. No colors that behave. I forget where I was. I ignore where I am. I can’t begin to guess where I’m headed. The camera flickers. The mirror glares. I don’t. I won’t. I turn away.
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The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong 1996
Buried under the chaos of the persona that I ought to be, I almost forgot that I was alive. But beneath the weight of expectation and the masks that conceal me, there is something real waiting to be released. Maybe I’ve drifted through life like a ghost, a stranger to the eyes that look back from the mirror—but this is not the end. I will carve out my own way myself, however many years it will take to do it, because the real me has always lived, waiting to be born.
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Cure 1997
There's a LOT to say about this movie, but since I don't have time for a full review, I'll just summarize my favorite part:
The film's most blurred and important line—the one between what happens on screen and what happens beyond it, behind your very head, in the world you inhabit. The world that continues on all around you as the film plays. The world that keeps going even after the film stops. Cure doesn’t just show characters being hypnotized…
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