17, she/her
transgendered by god
in search of a cinema of kindness and compassion
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The Tree of Life 2011
βBrothers, have no fear of men's sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all of God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.β
β Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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East of Eden 1955
My beloved grandmother died 9 years ago, and she was the only member of my family I ever truly loved. One of the last things she gave to me was a piece of paper, in it there was a list of movies that she called "movies i would have watched with you if I wasn't so sick". I am not going to share some of the things she wrote in it, they are only between me and her but thereβ¦
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The Quick and the Dead 1995
An absolute cartoon of a western(like if Once Upon a Time in the West was made by people who think that the western as a genre is a bunch of people shooting the sky while yelling yeehaw) that embraces every single cliche of the genre and it's all the better for it. Raimi takes the melodrama of Johnny Guitar and mixes it with Leone's dollars trilogy and the combination is just delicious, the cast is also unbelievably hot. Best complimentβ¦
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Ambulance 2022
have to admire a movie that starts its heist 15 minutes in and then slaps you with relentless action around la for the next 2 hours. i just find this a triumph of action filmmaking(like, how was this made with only 40 million???) and surprisingly despite how goofy and ridiculous it allows itself to be, it is also quite moving? i don't know, comparisons have been made with mann and tony scott and indeed bay here deploys the sensitivity ofβ¦
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Lady Bird 2017
I don't know what to write.Writing about your favourite movie is hard.And when your favourite movie is your favourite for personal reasons,it gets even harder.This is not going to be a review.This is a diary entry.A lot of personal thoughts and feelings about Lady bird and how it changed my life and how it still continues to do so everytime I watch it.I don't know where to start and how I can write this diary entry without it being aβ¦
