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Favorite films

  • The Dream Songs
  • Monster
  • Minari
  • Short Term 12

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  • Thunderbolts*

  • Look Back

    ★★★★½

  • When Life Gives You Tangerines

  • Eighth Grade

    ★★★★½

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The Dream Songs

2022

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

A tribute to queer victims of the Sewol Ferry tragedy whose stories may forever go untold, but live on through meaningful pieces of media like this.

To say that Korea still grieves, even years after the tragedy itself, is an egregious understatement. There is so much built into our culture that made the Sewol Ferry tragedy so devastating—it represented the ultimate failure of a government that had continually failed its people, because the victims this time around were the people’s children. …

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Thunderbolts*

2025

Liked Watched

Sat up in my chair when I recognized Son Lux in this score. (!!!!!)

Did I expect an inversion of the original Avengers theme? Yes. Did I still love the score? Yes! Surprised me how much heart they could infuse in it (and I appreciated the nods to related scores, in particular Lorne Balfe's score for Black Widow, which I loved a lot).

I think they achieve it in the very same way they did with their surreal, overwhelming yet…

When Life Gives You Tangerines

2025

Liked Watched

Warning: watching generations of mothers and daughters Pachinko-style, shot in the devastatingly beautiful seaside, will possibly break you (for the better)

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The Dream Songs

2022

★★★★½ Liked Watched

fighting over the stupidest things is such gay best friends core

Pyramid Game

2024

★★★ Liked Rewatched

some thoughts i wrote down while watching, enjoy (all in good fun, i ❤️ gay girls):

1. me when i turn around from horrifying school violence to open my brand new Samsung flip phone and chat on Zepeto and eat at Subway’s 

2. why is the intro giving queendom 2 (i just KNOW bona had flashbacks)

3. why is suji so ASS at secret recording? girl just an app that can record while your screen is turned off. this…