zeynep

zeynep

on my journey to become a film bro

Favorite films

  • Billy Elliot
  • Amadeus
  • Interstellar
  • Daisies

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Cinema Paradiso

    ★★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    felt like it was a little on the nose and doing a little too much but nevertheless a creative and poignant story. it’s like asimov meets modern american politics and decides to get a little too specific about his story elements.

  • Cinema Paradiso

    Cinema Paradiso

    ★★★★★

    film is the most beautiful thing that humans have made in the past 150 years. i love loving movies.

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  • Mustang

    Mustang

    ★★★

    I saw a lot of clashing reviews from people in Turkey and people who don’t really know about the culture in Turkey. This is by no means a bad movie, but a movie trying to explain the nuances of culture in Turkey and misogyny gets it so wrong and it’s clear that it is catered to Western audiences. 

    There are many things that makes this movie feel so unnatural and distant to history and culture in Turkey. Even the way…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★

    the film before the intermission really excited me: the exploration of othering and “tolerating” (as the movie itself puts it) of immigrants as well as the shallow aloofness of the new found american riches offers a lot to the viewer. initially there is so much to delve into with van buren’s character in regards to the new american bourgeois and how their exploitations expand beyond labor but extend into personhood. he quite literally wanted the essence of toth but not…