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Perfect Days 2023
There was one year of my life, where I worked as a janitor/cleaner for the state in a community building near where I lived. It was run by this elderly lady and was basically a meetup for the old people in the neighbourhood to do crochet, arts and crafts and other things old people do. (I didn't pry). I didn't really get on with the lady that run it, she acted very smugly and it almost felt as though she…
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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
New goals unlocked:
1. Reconnect with nature, embrace fear of the unknown and tap back into childlike curiosity.
2. Acquire CatbusTranslated from by
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974
A story about a mother who gets institutionalised for having a nervous disposition, quirkiness that is deemed socially odd and a "drinking problem". Having her personality smothered by an abusive husband and a society that expects females to maintain the status quo. Stay quiet, make pleasantries with the guests and never dare to be yourself. The movie does a great job at showing the hypocrisy of the time - where it's normalised for the man of the home to be…
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Funeral Parade of Roses 1969
The film opens with a line from the poem by Charles Baudelaire - The Man Who Tortures Himself
"I am the wound and the dagger, the victim and the executioner"
A poem with themes of inner conflict, self torment and the ongoing struggle and exploration of the duality of self. Which mirror the protoganists own journey of self discovery.
Loosely based on the Greek mythological story of Oedipus Rex. Eddie, works at a gay and trans - drag nightclub, where…
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