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I love cinema because it makes me feel alive, even if that means feeling sad.

Favorite films

  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Melancholia
  • The Whale
  • Dogville

All
  • The Happening

    ★★

  • Milk & Serial

    ★★★½

  • Orphan: First Kill

    ★★

  • It Comes at Night

    ★★★★

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Synecdoche, New York

2008

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

To all the Cadens, Ellens and Hazels. Live, love. You’re beautiful.

Dogville

2003

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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Barbie

2023

Barbie is not cinema, and let me explain why.
Cinema (art in general) should serve to bring people together, it should bring you closer to society, Barbie does the opposite.
Beyond the obvious, which is that it is a simple two-hour commercial disguised as Mattel's self-criticism, Barbie is a misandric speech that seems to be "just humor". Humor, black humor in specific is just that, to laugh, but when that humor has something behind it, it’s a hate speech. That…

Synecdoche, New York

2008

★★★★★ Liked Added

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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