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Tourist Family 5n6m5l 2025 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers)

Tue, 3 Jun 2025 00:50:10 +1200

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This review may contain spoilers.

mfs were really about to frame an innocent family for a terrorist attack

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Y Tu Mamá También 2f569 2001 - ★★★★

Mon, 2 Jun 2025 16:49:47 +1200

what’s more teenage than being horny, angry, and emotionally wrecked?

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Sunset Boulevard 4v251c 1950 - ★★★★★

Mon, 2 Jun 2025 00:31:03 +1200

gotta serve looks before you serve a jail sentence

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Brief Encounter 6u53h 1945 - ★★★★½

Mon, 2 Jun 2025 00:28:29 +1200

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

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Mountainhead 202jx 2025 - ★★★

Sat, 31 May 2025 23:20:25 +1200

whole lotta mountain not a lotta head

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Dan in Real Life 141j12 2007 - ★★★

Sat, 31 May 2025 23:19:20 +1200

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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Karate Kid 6n491a Legends, 2025 - ★★½

Fri, 30 May 2025 20:42:18 +1200

karate kid: into the karate-verse

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Apur Sansar 4j1j5w 1959 - ★★★★★

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:28:13 +1200

The World Of Apu

Child. Teen. Adult. An entire lifetime in three films. Apur Sansar is not about what life gives. It’s about what it takes and yet what we choose to give back anyway.

Journey From A Boy To A Man
Apu has lost too much by the time we meet him here. He’s not a little boy anymore, but he’s not a man either, not yet. Apu is an aspiring writer, trying to make ends meet. He drifts through Calcutta, poor, jobless, he's just existing and not living. But as we know that life is a game that deals us our fate.

Blessing & Curse
He didn't ask for love but out of nowhere he’s pulled into a marriage, into laughter, into her. She wasn’t meant to be in his story. A girl handed over to a stranger because of fate. But from the moment she entered Apu’s life she changed everything. She was the missing color in his black and white life. She smiles. She forgets things. She teases him. She gets nervous around him. And slowly, she learns him. And he learns her. Their love is not born of ion, but of presence. Of shared meals, shared rooms, shared silences. For the first time, he knew what it meant to be loved and to love in return. She was his entire world and out of nowhere his world was taken away from him. Once again, life unfolds its cruel tragedy and grief visits Apu again. Aparna ed away during childbirth. Aparna dies. And something inside Apu dies too.

Another Half
Mother dies during childbirth. Father who left him all alone. But little Kajal is still optimistic and hopefulthat his father would return once again. After 5 years, Apu returns to his son, it is not just a reunion, it’s a moment of rediscovery. Apu, who has lost so much, now sees the beauty in life through his child. Apu’s son is not merely an heir to his legacy, he is a chance for Apu to heal, to learn the language of love once more, and chance to create a brand new future.

Ray of Hope
Every stage of life, the world has asked him to let go of someone he loves.But Apur Sansar doesn’t end in loss.
It ends in belief and hope. Now Apu has something to look forward too. Satyajit Ray has crafted the world's most humane trilogy. He saw stories not only in empires, but also in empty kitchens, broken windows, and fleeting moments. His characters didn’t perform, they simply lived. He gave poverty dignity, grief poetry, and ordinary lives the grandeur they had always deserved.

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Aparajito 6k6aq 1956 - ★★★★★

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:32:20 +1200

The Unvanquished

The boy who once chased trains now boards one. Apu is now going through his childhood in the light of a new city (benares and calcutta), a new language (hindi and english) and a newer self.

Holy Cycle of Banaras
After the loss of Durga, the ray family decide to move to benares. The holiest city in all of India, a city which breathes with sacred rhythm of temples, ghats, river ganga, chants echoing with morning prayers and the people being troubled by monkeys. Harihar earns by reading scriptures, while Apu plays around the ghats of ganga and Sarbajaya again carries the world on her shoulders without complaint. But the sense of peace doesn't last long. One day Harihar coughs. And keeps coughing. And alas, like Durga, like Indir, he stops. Benares gives Apu the first glimpse of something larger than his village but it also teaches him that loss will follow him wherever he goes.

Education and Liberation
After the demise of Harihar, Apu and Sarbajaya decide to head back to rural bengal. Rather than being a priest Apu was more interested in going to school and become a educated man. Education opens new horizons for him, offering knowledge, opportunity, and a chance to envision a life beyond traditional rural existence and to live in the big city of Calcutta. While studying in Calcutta he now truly feels liberated, he discovers a whole new world outside of his village. He makes friends, smokes cigarettes and goes around Calcutta and visits famous landmarks. But in all this noise he forgot about the voice that once called his name with love.

Letting Go: A Mother To Her Son & A Son To His Mother
While Apu learns about the world with books, freedom and ambition. Sarbajaya is sitting there staring at her son with hope and pride. When Apu made the decision to go to Calcutta for his higher studies, at first Sarbajaya was clearly unhappy by his decision but when she saw her son get saddened she couldn't bare it any more and she set him free with the money she had saved up. After he left, Sarbajaya waits. Her son writes letters, but they grow shorter, colder. The house feels emptier now, even when it’s full of silence. Unfortune struck again as she becomes more and more ill. And at last she took her last breath while longing for her son. And Apu? He returned, but it was too late. Just like his father.

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Pather Panchali b3n26 1955 - ★★★★★

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:41:32 +1200

Song Of The Little Road

Satyajit ray not only tells a story but re a life. Life of a boy. Life of a daughter. Life of a mother. Life of a father. Life of the old aunt. Life of a family.

Life of a boy (Apu)
Young, carefree and full of life. Apu is and what should be a energetic young child who is enjoying his childhood to the fullest. He finds wonder where no one else looks. In dragonflies, in ponds, in the distant whistle of a train. He doesn’t yet understand loss, but he will. He doesn’t know what poverty means, but he knows the shame in his mother’s eyes, the hunger in his belly, the silence after his sister coughs through the night. He is the only light of sunshine in this tale of misery.

Life of a daughter (Durga)
Durga wants more than the world allows her. She wanted things. To run, to take, to be loved without asking. She wanted sweets she could not afford. She wanted to dance in the rain. She wanted her mother to see her without judgment. She wanted fruits from the trees. They called her a thief. She overlooks a train. A Train which gave her hope. A Train which was full of dreams. She was just a child who wanted more. Apu is allowed to dream because his sister taught him how.

Life of a mother (Sarbajaya)
Sarbajaya was born into a house that gave her no room. She came in as a wife, not a woman, not a girl. She didn't choose her life. She inherited it. Her choices were not about what she wanted, but about what she could keep alive for another day. Her son, her daughter, their food, their shelter. Her husband walks. He dreams. He disappears. He returns empty-handed but full of stories, and no one holds him to . His sorrow is romantic; hers is routine. He sees the world, and she holds it together behind closed doors. There is no Sarbajaya outside her struggle. No personhood beyond her sacrifice. No sleep. Only waiting, watching, enduring.

Life of a father (Harihar)
Harihar dreams when he cannot afford to. He believes things will get better but belief does not bring food to the table. He leaves home chasing hope and returns to find silence where his daughter once laughed. A priest, a poet, a man with soft hands in a world that demands callouses.

Life of the old aunt (Indir)
At the last years of her life, body aching but barely visible. She smiles with broken teeth, tells stories no one listens to, and walks away when she's no longer wanted. Alas she dies alone under the sky, alone and tired.

Life of a family
Each one carries a quiet ache the others don’t fully see. Sarbajaya bears the weight. Harihar dreams. Durga runs, trying to escape it. Apu watches, learning way too early what it means to lose. Indir is already halfway gone, a reminder of what happens when the world forgets you. And yet there is beauty. Always.
A smile in the rain. The sunlight on water. A brother and sister watching a train like it’s a miracle. Because even in poverty, in loss, in endings, life refuses to give up all its wonder. They inherited poverty. They carried duty. They mourned dreams that were never allowed to live. Their lives were not cinematic. They were real. And that’s what makes them unforgettable.

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Sweet Smell of Success 254g3d 1957 - ★★★★★

Tue, 27 May 2025 00:49:07 +1200

sniffin’ success like it’s coke

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Lawrence of Arabia 574n64 1962 - ★★★★★

Mon, 26 May 2025 00:30:57 +1200

"lawrence of arabia is to cinema what the pyramids are to architecture" ~ denis villeneuve

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Rope 1o2525 1948 - ★★★★

Sun, 25 May 2025 01:45:27 +1200

he may be dead but at least he was the life of the party

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Sun, 25 May 2025 00:35:43 +1200