KousakaK

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Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Donnie Darko
  • La Haine
  • The Seventh Seal

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  • Abunai Deka

    ★★½

  • Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★½

  • The Ugly Stepsister

    ★★★★

  • The Girl of Silence

    ★★★½

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On the Silver Globe

On the Silver Globe

★★★★★ Watched

This is a very cold and desolate movie, pregnant with so much meaning and content that I can't possibly begin to unpack it in just a single viewing. A science-fiction epic of proportions unlike anything I've seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey, obviously there is inspiration taken too. Some of the most interesting camerawork I've seen in my life, one of the best looking movies I've seen too despite the seemingly rudimentary ways they achieved the very grey and dead…

Begotten

Begotten

★★★★ Watched

I do recognize this is mostly being edgy arthouse crap, but I'll be honest, I found a lot of the imagery in this to be superbly intriguing and engaging. The image of God killing himself and the disturbing take on the creation of man is something that deeply resonated with me despite my lack of faith. I'm big into alternative takes on religious tales (mostly of the Abrahamic faiths as I have extremely little experience with other beliefs), and I…

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The Girl of Silence

The Girl of Silence

★★★½ Liked Watched

Do not be fooled by the original title which can easily come across as perverse, the only perverse thing about The Girl of Silence/Father Fucker is the perverse lust for power said Father has. The film might not say a whole lot actually about the literal patriarchal fascism of the Tanaka household, it's mostly shown without further commentary, but the way it's shown is so poignant that you don't really need a deeper exploration than what Genjiro Arato shows in…

Krull

Krull

★½ Watched

Quite probably the best example of a "We have X at home" type movie, the most evident being Star Wars, it's trying SO HARD to be Star Wars, the production design, the soundtrack (which isn't actually a bad soundtrack at all), the very characters are so clearly modelled after how it was in A New Hope. It does however shake things up a teensy bit, throwing in a little bit of Dune, Flash Gordon and The Neverending Story just for…

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Secret Sunshine

Secret Sunshine

★★★ Liked Watched 6

I think I need to take a break from these overly long deconstructions of a person's trauma because they're starting to lose their punch to me, despite the very realistic nature of many of them, especially Secret Sunshine and Burning, both by lauded director Lee Chang-dong, and both watched by me the past week. I can most definitely appreciate the writing of this, deeply realistic and uncomfortable close look at what trauma does to an already sensitive mind. Secret Sunshine…

Ivan

Ivan

★★★ Watched 1

A pretty relentless film, any film that starts with an uncomfortably closely filmed birth is, but also a painfully close look at postpartum depression; a depression which finds itself rooted in a very real and harrowing case of severe codependency, likely also caused by underlying mental illness. The female lead is played terrifyingly well by Maruša Majer, even without understanding a word of the language, her facial expressions and body language speaks for her, there's a feeling that her character…