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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021
"If who I am, something I can't change, makes people nauseous, what am I to do?"
"I don't know what happened in your life. But if people around you made you think you're worthless, then please fight back. Refuse when society's ruler tries to measure you. You must embrace your own value that only you know. It's very painful to do it alone, still you must do it."
The second episode is forever ingrained in my mind. Hamaguchi really symbolized…
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Asako I & II 2018
A wonderful film. It seems the atmosphere and supporting characters carry the dramatic heft, letting the two main lovers mostly dwell in their interiority. Perhaps this is the point- Baku is the ghost that lingers no matter what and the open-ended dialogue drives home the idea that people are most human when love has entranced them, and being human is so limiting to many but enough for others. Also, that entrancing love is simply never forgotten.
So many moments of…
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Women Are Like That 1938
A lot of fucked up things happened in Old Hollywood but few irk me as much as Warner Bros. fucking over Kay Francis later in her career. She deserved so much better.
