gabriel

It’s when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life.

Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Aftersun
  • Amour
  • Chungking Express

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  • Grave of the Fireflies

    ★★★★★

  • Sinners

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★

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Grave of the Fireflies

1988

★★★★★ 1

Told through silence and sorrow, Grave of the Fireflies unfolds like a mournful lullaby, a delicate elegy to love and loss, tracing the fragile journey of two souls, adrift in the aftermath of devastation, bound by blood and by the persistence of hope that flickers ever fainter with each ing day. It is a film that offers itself with raw honesty and a profound stillness, allowing the gravity of what remains unspoken to settle deeply into the viewer’s chest, like…

Sinners

2025

★★★★½ Watched

Through a masterful fusion of gothic horror, intergenerational trauma, and the untamed power of music, Sinners unfolds not simply as a tale of survival, but as a searingly poetic confrontation with History itself. In Coogler’s boldest vision yet, vampires transcend their role as supernatural predators to become haunting metaphors for cultural appropriation, systemic oppression, and the parasitic forces that have long fed on Black creativity and spirit. At the core of Sinners lies a deeply resonant portrayal of cultural resilience…

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

★★★★★ Liked 7

Brooks was here.

There’s something truly devastating about that particular scene. The one where we find something that’s been completely lost, the soul of a man no longer recognizing his own body, his way of living. Hope no longer visible to the eye, the freedom that a cloistered human so long dreams of never materializes into anything that is of any true meaning to him due to the inability to adjust to new times, to a new life, after spending…

The Breadwinner

2017

★★★★½ Liked 8

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes the flowers grow, not thunder.

Through its refreshing 2D animation style, The Breadwinner takes us on an emotional and striking journey through a story we wish was only fiction.

I'm beyond words. The Breadwinner is harsh, violent and, most of all, real. It doesn't lie about what happens, it doesn't disguise the disrespect towards women or the lack of human rights that, unfortunately, haunts today's landscape and that is…

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