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Favorite films

  • Inherent Vice
  • Notre Musique
  • Badlands
  • Death Proof

All
  • Anora

    ★★

  • Cloud

    ★★★★

  • Love

    ★★★

  • The Penguin

    ★★★★★

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Anora

2024

★★ Watched

In an era dominated by romantic love ideology, marriage is nothing more than a contract. In such a world, anyone who violates a contract, especially with independent creators, is a blyat.

Gun Crazy

1950

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I couldn't help but be amazed at the economy of the film, with not a single wasted shot.

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Longlegs

2024

★★ Watched

The shot composition, which makes extensive use of one-point perspective, limits the viewer's gaze and instills a sense of fear of the negative space, successfully lulling the viewer into a claustrophobic paranoia. However, I was disappointed that the story remained so conventional. I had the same complaint about Rosemary's Baby, but why does Western horror use a religious context to explain inherent weirdness of the world? The rationalization reduces the horror.
The film seems to have been evaluated in comparison to Kurosawa's Cure, but what did the director learn from that?

Hail, Satan.

Close Your Eyes

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Whenever a sequence ends, the film slowly fades into a deep darkness. It is as if the film itself is forgotten even as it is being shown, or as if it refuses to be easily understood and runs away from us. The act of watching a film is nothing but the act of reconstructing the film by burning fragments of the impressions received from the film into our memory. Therefore, the most thrilling and intense experience occurs when the film…

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