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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Sep 2023

  I have read Uncle Vanya, and didn’t quite understand it until I watched this movie. 
  We do not have to let go but we do not have to only be our pain. 

  It will be ok. We will rest.

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  Submarine 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Aug 2023

  Ironically beautiful.

  Try not to get so caught up in your own life that you forget what’s actually happening.

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2022

  I don’t have many clear thoughts on this movie. I watch it every now and then, struck sometimes by it’s loneliness, by the metaphors oozing from every pore, sometimes by depth of acting performance, and always by the examination of “humanity”. I think I get a lot out of watching this movie, I care about all the characters, the world feels real, and miserable in a way you’re powerless to, this is well outlined by the lie K creates for…

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  The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jul 2022

  You look through time and realise not everything is that different. A story about a man who knew a lobby boy who met a writer who penned the book a girl reads. Yet it’s all the same. A friend you knew for years whose final gift you cherish in its beauty , only to give it away immediately whilst risking your life for it. Understanding what Facisms takes from you, that sometimes something awful and strange happens and that you will simply never be the same.

  Absolutely whimsical and absolutely absorbed me into its heartbreak and pathos.

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