Alyssa Heflin

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Trans girl who watches too many movies for her own good.

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A Dangerous Method 2011

Watched by Alyssa Heflin 21 Jun 2022

There is a comparison I could make here that is so insanely effusive that I’m gonna have to keep it to myself until I rewatch this a few years later and can be confident that I’m not talking out of my ass.
National Gallery 2014

Watched by Alyssa Heflin 16 Jun 2022

When Wiseman touches on art I find that he brings it to life in ways I was unprepared for, especially when it's with subjects that feel beyond the ken of the everyday person (the theatre, ballet, and of course here Fine Art). Take for instance a brief scene of two people, an older man and a younger woman, both looking over a painting of Moses bringing the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai (I'm thinking now of the kind of…

Uncut Gems 2019

★★★★★ Rewatched by Alyssa Heflin 12 Feb 2020 15

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

To die is to witness the end of the world. What is a bullet if not a meteor, rocketing into your orbit and shattering the hard bone that protects your universe from collapse. How does it feel to be shot in the brain? Do you disappear all at once, like an ice cube dropped into boiling water? Or do you slowly feel yourself shed your identity piece by piece? Is there a split second where all of a sudden you…
WHAT DID JACK DO? 2017

Watched by Alyssa Heflin 20 Jan 2020 4

The part where a single strand of Lynch’s perfectly coiffed hair just slumps down at the accusation that he’s lying.......how’d he do that??