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Past Lives 2023

★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Jul 2023 2

It’s been days and I cant stop thinking about it. And every time I think about it I just feel a lump rising up in my throat. Its themes about love and fate caught in the ephemeral flux of time, and how one affects the other, entangling us in the cobwebs of possibilities concerning the versions of ourselves and what we could have been, how none of them matter as much as the person we’ve now become — and how…
Still Walking 2008

★★★★½ Watched 03 Apr 2020 1

In Still Walking, people don't change; their familial relationships won't change, or at least in any dramatic, fundamental sense. Avoidance always overcomes confrontation. As for communication, whether it's interpreted through coded words or physical action, silence will more than likely prevail. No closure is offered; resentments are left unvented, problems remain unsolved, but they are collectively acknowledged, and even understood by these characters. Kore-eda is so good at conveying affection through the minutiae of delicate gestures, expressions, and awkward interactions that he makes me long for a day to go back to my sweet home. I'm always like that. I'm always a little late.

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Theater Camp 2023

★★★ Watched 22 Sep 2023

“Tear sticks are doping for actors. Do you want to be the Lance Armstrong of theater?”
Bottoms 2023

★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2023

It may be the age-old story of a bunch of losers trying to lose their virginity before they go off to college, but execution-wise, this movie just gives zero fucks. Adore how they really went all out with it and had it turned into a zany fever dream where a lot didn’t make sense and no one tried to make up for things not seeming real, à la the good old 2000s spoof. Everyone and everything were nuts and random…

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