Favorite films

More

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched 07 May 2025

In Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho crafts a chilling and thought-provoking exploration of identity, memory, and the digital afterlife. With a premise that feels eerily close to our present-day anxieties, the film delves into the ethical conundrums surrounding the digitization of consciousness.
Bong’s signature knack for blending the personal with the political is on full display here. His sharp commentary on corporate greed and exploitation cuts through the sci-fi backdrop with such subtlety and power that it’s hard not to feel…

2021

★★★★ Liked Watched 03 May 2025

I watched The French Dispatch and immediately wanted to live inside a perfectly symmetrical, sepia-toned world where everyone speaks in monologues and drinks espresso like it’s a sacrament.
This film isn’t a story. It’s a love letter. No - it’s a series of love letters: to journalism, to writers who are chronically over-romantic and underpaid, to cities that don’t exist but should, and to the kind of art that you hang on the wall of your brain and revisit in…

More

1995

★★★★★ Liked Watched 30 Apr 2025

This movie is just... vibes. Pure, neon-soaked, sleepless-night vibes. Plot? Kinda. Characters? Yeah, but mostly they're just trying to not fall apart. I don’t know how Wong Kar-wai makes eating a cup of noodles or riding a motorcycle feel like the most intimate thing in the world, but he does. It’s sad, but not in a dramatic way. It’s more like the kind of sadness that sneaks up on you at 3am and sits beside you without saying a word.

Also, the music?? Instant serotonin.

2003

★★★★★ Liked Watched 29 Apr 2025

There’s a silence in Memories of Murder that lingers long after the credits roll - not just the silence of unresolved crimes, but the kind that sinks into your bones. Bong Joon-ho doesn’t just craft a murder mystery; he builds a portrait of a country in turmoil, an atmosphere thick with frustration, incompetence, and quiet desperation.
The film moves like a slow, tightening noose - absurdly funny in moments, then suddenly brutal. Each scene is soaked in paranoia, heavy rain,…

49

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
•