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When You Finish Saving The World 2022
I saw this described somewhere as “Lady Bird but with a boy”. I get the comparison, but it also highlights what it’s not at the level of. I really like “small” movies like this, about a few days in the life of families going through interesting times, and it had all the right aesthetic of one of those movies, but was just missing a certain kind of quality. The characters were kind of flat, the story was a little too…
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Little Women 2019
Was listening to something about the upcoming Barbie movie, about how Greta Gerwig has charted this kind of path through her movies, where some of the chatter was about this one, and was a nice trigger to actually watch it. Haha what am I going to say though? Everyone talks about how great it is and everyone is right. Really endearing and great casting, teared up a few times and was charmed by the earnestness of everyone. Not sure Bob…
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
The second acclaimed movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman I've tried to watch in the past year, and as with The Master, I just can't get into it. I think that now after trying to watch both these movies, I've realized that I have a hard time with movies that I feel are too abstract, and lacking in narrative. For SNY specifically, I can respect it for its ambition and how creatively meta it got, but I think I prefer this sort of ground being tread in other mediums beside film. For some reason it remains very inaccessible to me.
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After Yang 2021
This is what I increasingly like out of sci-fi. A quiet thoughtful short story rather than an epic tour-de-force. A random walk through an interesting take on the future instead of a space opera. To me this reminded me of a Ted Chiang story that got turned into a 90 minute movie, or maybe a bit like Klara and the Sun. Didn’t really have an explicit message but relied more on mood and direction. Thought everyone in it was really good. I would like to live in this Muji-inspired future, with it’s impeccably clean homes and gourmet teas.
