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  • Juno

  • Decision to Leave

  • Anatomy of a Fall

  • Drive My Car

    ★★★★

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  • Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

    I'm sorry but if you trap me in the French Alps alone with you in an uninsulated house playing 50 cent instrumentals on loop and you tell me I'm a monster and my child thinks I'm a monster you too will get slapped.

  • Drive My Car

    Drive My Car

    ★★★★

    A movie that should have dragged under the weight of its lofty ambitions (murakami adaptation, play within a play, themes of death, loss, and grief) but instead drove rather effortlessly, mirroring the circuitous journeys in the car.

    Mo commented in the first act that murakami has a preoccupation with infidelity and I agree, but I think more philosophically than literally; he tends to write about how life tests one's loyalty to one's own ethics and ideals. The metanarratives and expository…