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  • The Brutalist
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Inception
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • Harakiri

    ★★★½

  • Hot Milk

    ★★

  • Pitch Perfect

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  • The Dark Knight Rises

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives 2023

    ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jul 2023 7

    “You’re someone who leaves […] to him, you’re someone who stays.”

    I’m an immigrant. I’m from a migrant family. My family migrated to my home country several generations before me. I migrated to London. Within me lives so many different lives. A life I never knew, a life I knew, and now, a life I know. I’m someone who left — I left home, I left who I was, I left who I could’ve been, to become someone new, someone…

  • Babylon

    Babylon 2022

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Jan 2023 2

    “Because it’s bigger than you.”

    I’ve been thinking about these words since yesterday, thinking about this conversation between Conrad and Jean Smart’s Elinor St. John, thinking about Conrad’s conversation with Lady Fay, thinking about Conrad’s final scene in the film. What does it mean to be part of something bigger?

    I apologise in advance on my own behalf if I go off on a tangent, but there’s so many feelings regarding film and filmmaking that have been circulating in my head…

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  • Harakiri

    Harakiri 1962

    ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025 1

    Watching the Japanese masters stage their actors and block their scenes is a film directing class in itself.

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises 2012

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

    “So, you came back to die with your city.”
    “No, I came back to stop you.”

    Silly, all-out, blockbuster entertainment, sprinkled throughout with relevant but sporadic musings on philosophy and politics, muddled but timely, that works so well because of how inherently comic-booky it generally is — in execution, in plotting, in scope and scale, in tone and mood — a sure shift from The Dark Knight. Even as a sort of filler film in Nolan’s oeuvre — functioning as…

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things 2023

    ★★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2023 66

    Bella, where the hell have you been, loca?

  • Red Rocket

    Red Rocket 2021

    ★★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2021 4

    Alternatively titled: The Worst Person in the World.

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  • Apocalypse Now
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