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No Time to Die 2021

★★★★ Watched 12 Oct 2021

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

Catherine in Jules et Jim constantly resets her romantic relationships with infidelity that instills a distrust that proves fatal. Daniel Craig’s James Bond falls into a similar disposition. Both are individuals whose social circumstances and the larger systems that control them, cause them to become stunted in their ability to emotionally express themselves. Whereas Catherine is bombastic, bohemian in her ultimately emotional expressions that are ultimately condemned to be empty, Bond is much more calculated and stoic in his form…
Night and Day 2008

★★★★★ Watched 07 Aug 2021 1

A real man and the unreal women in his life. It is probably best to widen that scope, a real man and the overwhelming sense of unreality that he pushes himself towards. Pushed towards as an exaggerated reaction over a minor criminal accusation—or is that just an excuse for an artist to escape from a lack of creative motivation and maybe some uncommunicated marital strife. I don’t know, but Hong’s fixation on arrivals and a complete remove from departures leads…

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Crocodile 2: Death Swamp 2002

★ Watched 16 May 2023

Bad and stupid
The Love Guru 2008

★ Watched 14 May 2023

One of our most terrifying opaque texts

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Juliet in Paris 1967

Watched 19 Apr 2021

A comment on the bloodlust of imperial society that drains the life force of its citizens. Forcing people to react with a similar mindset in order to survive and play their role in the system. I think? Which means you get to watch Juliet Berto have fun with knives and other sharp objects. And I too roll around on the floor to feel something other than this anxious existence.
Eternals 2021

★ Watched 04 Nov 2021 3

Making me hate Pink Floyd, history, and Alain Resnais—sadly, I will remember this day. Kinda makes you wish Marguerite Duras burned the screenplay for Hiroshima, mom amour.