wari •ᴗ•

Favorite films

  • Chungking Express
  • When Marnie Was There
  • Our Little Sister
  • Pride & Prejudice

All
  • Still Walking

    ★★★★

  • The Apothecary Diaries

    ★★★★★

  • Summer Ghost

    ★★★½

  • Anand

    ★★★★

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Still Walking

2008

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

🎶 still walking, on and on
but I only sway like a little boat...

"Not having someone to hate makes it all the worse for me. So once a year, I make him feel awful too. Will the gods punish me for that?"

Avoiding confrontations, complaining but never addressing issues directly, veiling ive-aggression in customary politeness, making promises you know you'll never keep. All of it feels too real. As if you're not watching a film but peering through a…

The Apothecary Diaries

2023

★★★★★ Liked 1

i genuinely thought this was gonna be one of those anime I'd drop by fifth episode, but i ended up inhaling whole of season one like maomao inhales sh*t that should k!ll her.

the storyline is so good and maomao makes for such an iconic mc. it almost felt like watching a historical cdrama except, its actually interesting lol. also, its kinda insane the kind of chemistry maomao and jinshi have, the animators definitely did an amazing job here.

p.s. - i would literally k!ll for jinshi btw

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White Nights

1959

★★★½ Liked Rewatched

My god, five nights! Five blissful nights of true, wonderful life! The miserable, unimportant phantasms to which I dedicated my whole youth simply pale before it...

well, this made me even more miserable than the book did.

while the adaptation is decent enough, it felt very un-dostoyevsky like to me. it is a little too dramatic, in line with most movies made in that era i suppose. moreover, i found it to be slightly lacking in the poetic monologues that…

Death at a Funeral

2007

★★★½ Liked 2

matthew macfadyen has such a perfect case of 🥺face syndrome, its a terrible loss that he doesn't have at least thirteen romcoms to his name.