Favorite films

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  Orpheus 1950

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Sep 2023 1

  In the months since I first watched it I wasn't aware how much this influenced me, even though I didn't like it. I see it now. I understand it now.

  I have a habit of recontextualizing my life in my stories. Before I knew Olivia was me, she was the girl on the screen in my head. Though now I know she is me, she hasn't left that screen, that theater of the mind where my art is born before…

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jun 2023 3

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

  This reviewcontains spoilers for Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
  TW// Discussion of rape, incest, and sex trafficking.

  Sometime during my recently completed freshman year of college, as I came home from an unusually miserable late-night work shift, David Bowie's Five Years came on shuffle. It's not a work I fully understand, the bizarre lyrical story of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, the…

Recent reviews

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  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2023

  The nature of wealth and power is the ability to cause harm, so the rich invented nicety to protect themselves from each-other. When nicety frays, the poor will suffer first, the rich will suffer next, the perpetrator will suffer last. This is the struggle of a rich man against not his wealth but the expectations of it -- the veneer of "high class" as peaceful and chaste. His break from it, however, is not to become a poor man; it…

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  Blackhat 2015

  ★★ Watched 30 Sep 2023 4

  Mann apathetically going through the motions of a D-tier Bond outing starring a piece of drywall masquerading as an action star. It's so over.

Popular reviews

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★★★ Added 11

  I have never seen The Whale and never intend to, but I had a dream that I watched this, which is almost as good and there's no rule saying I'm not allowed to use Letterboxd as a dream journal.

  Here are my favorite parts of my dr- er, the movie:

  1) Brendan Fraser meets Hong Chau's character waiting at a crosswalk. She is on her way to deliver a copy of Oldboy (2003) on DVD to her father, which she…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★ Watched 22 Jul 2023 3

  Consume product.

  I didn't expect it to have any feminist meaning better than basic corporate-friendly bullet points, but I'm still aghast at how obnoxious it is about it. And it doesn't function as a story beyond that, all of its conflict relies on this TV-commercial ass grating as hell dialogue about feminism: a cacophony of buzzwords without insight, arrogance and unsubtly while making no point, meant to anger conservatives with flamboyance while having no actual worldview. Its view of gender…