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Past Lives 2023
“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…
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Babylon 2022
“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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The Dark Knight Rises 2012
“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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