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  Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched by Post1000Tension 12 Aug 2022

  Life after Dad.

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  Death and Transfiguration 1983

  ★★★★ Watched by Post1000Tension 10 Aug 2022

  This is the first film I’ve sat down to watch since moving into my new living space about two weeks ago. I felt like there should be some significance to whatever I marked the occasion with, though since I just moved out of my mom’s house, it ended up being a sad viewing in some very particular ways.

  As the queer child of a mother raised Catholic, I think I am able to understand the sadness of my own life…

Popular reviews

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  Ready Player One 2018

  Watched by Post1000Tension 29 Mar 2018 14

  "I hate myself

  I hate myself

  I hate myself

  For loving you"

  The text people are searching for to decode this bizarre film is Hiroki Azuma's critical theory book Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. I first heard of the book through McKenzie Wark, who, following Azuma, posited that Japan had begun grappling with post-modernity several decades earlier than the rest of the world. This I think is true, because what began in Japan can be seen emerging in the United States…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ½ Watched by Post1000Tension 17 May 2022 7

  I feel like, in response to growing up and realizing they’re not meant to be important artists or leaders or activists or whatever, and that they’re just living an ordinary adult life like the rest of us, certain millennials have just doubled down on that disappointment from the high expectations they had in childhood and are now like, actually I am the *most* important person in every universe that exists. Multiversal main character syndrome.

  With an escalating mass mental health…