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  Dream Scenario 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Hilarious, thoughtful, and tense. Dream Scenario plays on Nicolas Cage’s status as a meme and ends up veering into commentary on American narcissism, cancel culture, and the collective unconscious. From the crisp 16mm to the inventive shot language and editing, I’m glad this was my introduction to Kristoffer Borgli, although I felt that Charlie Kaufman influence tremendously. I had a blast with the dry humor (Cage’s antics were quite a hit with the audience). There’s a moment where Paul makes an…

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Nov 2023

  "If summer doesn't sing in you, then nothing sings in you. And if nothing sings in you, then you can't make music." 

  I’m going to write about a woman. A woman I loved. A woman I hurt.

  Where to begin? 

  It was December 2021. A fantastic year, and in that month I was finishing up with one of my final semesters of college. I had just written the treatment for my first feature length screenplay. I was seeing this girl…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jun 2023

  The emotional motif that is the anchor of this film is in-yun. If two people meet in a crowded place and brush sleeves, it’s believed that they have met before in past lives. Two people with a prominent relationship have about 8,000 layers of in-yun, in which their connection could have manifested itself in a variety of ways. Past Lives suggests that every choice we make and all we put other people through is no mistake, the connection we have with…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023 1

  “You're the American Prometheus, the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves”

  This might just be the first bonafide masterpiece of the year. The moment the film ended, I could not bring myself to start the applause. I felt this immense weight walking out while simultaneously inspired to possibly start writing my second screenplay. Christopher Nolan delivers a rousing and sprawling historical epic/courtroom drama. The entire ensemble is on their A game. Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.…