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Favorite films

  • Stranger Than Paradise
  • The Falls
  • A Hidden Life
  • Darkon

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  • Uncut Gems

    ★★★★

  • Rap World

    ★★★★★

  • Friendship

    ★★★★

  • The Fugitive

    ★★★½

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Witness

1985

★★★ Watched

Great performance from house sparrows (HOSP).

Also the Vangelis-esque music over Amish country is cool, I think

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

★★★★ Liked Watched

Cameron loves a parable! “Violence is relentless and spectacularly effective but ultimately dooms us to self-immolation” is more or less spelled out by the end, but more implicit, I think, is the collage of how that violence manifests— mostly via men, but and/or institutions and the state. It can take a visceral form, (guns, grenades), or something more pernicious (bureaucracy, gaslighting*).

Women can of course become actors in the cycle of violence— Sarah Connor embodies this by replicating the Terminator…

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The Long Day Closes

1992

★★★★★ Watched

15 minutes in, I was certain that this would be a "Life is just da friggin movies" movie. But I was wrong. Turns out... Catholicism is da friggin movies.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

½ Watched

sorry but the feet thing is bad

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