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Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 25, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 25, 2025.

It was really pleasant to watch. a delight for the eyes. I don't understand why some comments here are so bitter. I don't believe this movie was meant to be a thought provoking cinematic masterpiece, it is almost perfect in its own way and that is enough.

Watched on Wednesday December 11, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 11, 2024.

AGGHHHHH💞💓💕💖💘💓💖💓💖💞

sobbing uncontrollably yet again

"next time is next time.
now is now."

ilk başlarda dedim ki bu ne yenisine gitmim ya benim kronik depresyonum var ya özgürün stand upı berbat. Sonra ikinci yarıda baya güldürdü. yenisine yarım bilet istiyorum.

I really wanted to love this movie. I thought I would and I'm being really generous with my rating but it's just not right. It's a movie telling a story of girlhood with all its gut wrenching sides, from the perspective of a group of dumb boys. No charachter in this movie grows for the better. Nothing changes. If I saw this in middle school or high-school, I don't think I'd be here writing these today considering how hopeless everything seems in this movie and all the struggles of girlhood are brushed under a carpet of aestheticism. It shows no possible way out. Almost like you either live through it, or you don't. A woman being the director cannot just make me believe that "she gets it". The director seems no different than that outside boyish gaze. The boys see the whole thing as "mysterious", they are putting together the pieces of a puzzle, and they are doing nothing of real value for girlhood to be less traumatizing. No one is doing that either. This movie only gave us the old tumblr aesthetic of dainty, fragile, white, blond skinny girls with crosses alongside a period of Lana Del Rey and Marina And The Diamonds. And did that resulted in anything good other than cool songs and visuals with a sad truth under it? "This is just girlhood. Be the pretty one who doesn't talk much, there is no way out anyways." No, be a disgusting girl and grow up to be a complex woman who talks "too much" and looks like a normal human being. We are not angels. We are not an object to gaze upon for pure pleasure. I don't want to be idealized or romanticized but never truly understood. Maybe this movie wanted to say exactly that, and if so, it did a terrible job.

I have other criticisms for the plot but I'm no actual critic and two people at max will see my comment anyways so it's enough if I speak about the core problem of the movie.

Watched on Monday September 16, 2024.

Watched on Sunday September 15, 2024.

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idk man you have a wife

oh my god it's perfect

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This is such an amazing movie. It really delivered with being so disgusting. Onur is an incredible writer. Watching this after 8 years of Trump getting elected and now once again running against a woman is just great.

I'm freaky for American politics. I really wonder if it will play out the same and if we will get a sequel but this time with a conservative who uses that gun for good.

Also I love how throughout the movie the scenes on TV play in reverse (?) but when a conservative points the gun to himself they play as intended, almost like taking back the years of damage, the result of reactionary politics, the setback in science, humanities, climate etc... Maybe that's not the right interpretation and I'm being a horrible person but that's how I see it.

<3

sobbing uncontrollably

watched it as a palette cleanser after "The Double Life of Veronique". beautiful. The relation or the conflict between art and artist, authority and artist, authority and the world violated like the Io. Upper middle class playing a game of cards over the dead body of a soldier, while the few at the top even more careless, seeing everything as a tool to entertain themselves.

oh fuck off

Shocking info for the "cinophiles" of letterbox I guess but you should know about a director's background or at least ask questions to yourself while watching a movie even if your movie daddies don't like it because they shut their minds off when it's not Lanthimos or Godard or Blade Runner. I'm leaving a quote from one of her books King Kong Théorie so some of you can start reading from somewhere. My opinion on this movie doesn't even matter. Some people just need to ask more questions.
"When the film Baise-Moi was banned from the screen,
lots of women (men didn’t dare comment on that subject) stood up to publicly declare, “how revolting, we absolutely must not consider that violence is an answer to rape.” Why not? You never see news items about girls—alone or in gangs—biting off the dicks of men who attack
them, or trailing their attackers to kill them or beat them lifeless. This only happens, for the moment, in films directed by men: Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, Ferrara’s Ms. 45, Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave, for instance. All three films open with more or less horrible rape scenes (rather more than less, in fact), and go on to depict in a second part the ultraviolent revenges inflicted on their attackers by the women. When men create female characters, it is rarely an attempt to understand what the characters are experiencing and feeling as women. It tends instead to be a way of depicting male sensibility in a female body. I’ll come back to this later on the subject of porn, which follows the same logic. So in these three films, you see how men, if they were women, would react to rape. A bloodbath of merciless violence. Their message is clear, “Why don’t you defend yourselves more fiercely?” And it is in fact strange that we don’t react in that way. A powerful and ancient political strategy has taught women not to defend themselves. It’s a double constraint, as usual—at the same time making sure we know that nothing worse could happen to us, and yet that we must neither defend nor revenge ourselves. Just suffer, the sword of Damocles between our thighs."

excuse me? it might be the weirdest Lanthimos movie I've seen so far. Last two ones are vanilla compared to whatever this is

This is something. I think if "American New Wave" doesn't exist this can be called that. It's also like a long comedy sketch by a bunch of college students except this dude is the lead actor. Yes, this movie visually sucks especially with how bad they did with the black and white, and it feels like 3 hours. I would like to do a deep dive on it.
Ben is the real infinity baby here, no signs of growing up really and it is funny.

I watched it with my bf again because I thought he really had to see it since we talk about food a lot, we eat together often and he is really good at cooking. I normally don't enjoy rewatches, but this movie remains in its special place for me. I will always eat up the anti-capitalist messaging, and the artist's strive for protecting the dignity of art itself whether he has any or not.

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

This is a work of comedic and cinematic genius

Watched on Tuesday September 3, 2024.

Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? Definitely Edward Albee

Watched on Monday September 2, 2024.

wow that was a new world record

don't let dilf enjoyers see this what in the actual huh?

this weirdly has a place in my heart because i last saw it when I was in middle school trying to translate one of his texts while also trying to understand it? lol

i was gonna give it 2 stars but they gave us that blondie baddie so yeah

Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.

This movie made me glad that we are the way we are, and we savour our food and wine together.
also there is a detail I really like in the movie. growing up I was always bad with table manners and still to this day hold the fork in my right hand. Pauline does the same while very other character as far as I does the opposite, which is the general etiquette. I think it shows how new she is to this culinary world

can frame every scene and hang on the walls its perfect

Watched on Monday August 26, 2024.

Watched on Monday August 26, 2024.

Watched on Monday August 26, 2024.

did she really have to be 17 tho?

what?

here is a poem by H.D. called Sheltered Garden

I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.

Every way ends, every road,
every foot-path leads at last
to the hill-crest—
then you retrace your steps,
or find the same slope on the other side,
precipitate.

I have had enough—
border-pinks, clove-pinks, wax-lilies,
herbs, sweet-cress.

O for some sharp swish of a branch—
there is no scent of resin
in this place,
no taste of bark, of coarse weeds,
aromatic, astringent—
only border on border of scented pinks.

Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light—
pears wadded in cloth,
protected from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?

Why not let the pears cling
to the empty branch?
All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit—
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped, shrivelled by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.

Or the melon—
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste—
it is better to taste of frost—
the exquisite frost—
than of wadding and of dead grass.

For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
I want wind to break,
scatter these pink-stalks,
snap off their spiced heads,
fling them about with dead leaves—
spread the paths with twigs,
limbs broken off,
trail great pine branches,
hurled from some far wood
right across the melon-patch,
break pear and quince—
leave half-trees, torn, twisted
but showing the fight was valiant.

O to blot out this garden
to forget, to find a new beauty
in some terrible
wind-tortured place.

condom add

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I watched this movie so backwards because I've seen many other criticisms and attended a symposium that included a critic of it too, and then I watched the movie after I think like a year of its release but I'm not giving a shallow movie 5 stars just because I'm a feminist and the movie sometimes criticizes patriarchy.

The things I like about it:
It's feminist. yay. pretty sure it's not the first or the best.
It's sometimes touching.
The music, the colours, the costumes. Which is only expected because they have all the money in the world.

The things I don't:
Her first thought after seeing the fucked up patriarchal world is "I'm not pretty".
The movie undermines real women's struggle in patriarchal capitalistic world. Women did not except patriarchy in a day, and they wouldn't. It's hundreds of years of oppression, taking away women's rights and autonomy that resulted in today's patriarchy.
I'm not supposed to empathize with Ken, because despite the real-world Patriarchy which prevented women for all those years from doing the jobs that men to all the time despite being as much as capable and getting in places of power, in seemingly matriarchal Barbie Land Kens were not actually locked in in houses and stopped systematically from doing more instead of only wishing for Barbies' validation.
Mattel boot licking.

Watched on Thursday August 22, 2024.

BROTHER THIS GAME SUCKS

I never watched the ending so we watched it with my boyfriend again. he was totally on the side of the wife the whole time because the husband was a cheater and kinda manipulative at times etc. but I couldn't help but feel sad for the both parties. Idk it's such a good movie and probably the saddest one I've seen in a while

also we hate her mother
also why is he so close with everyone but so neutral with his wife ew

Watched on Sunday August 18, 2024.

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