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Favorite films

  • Mind Game
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • The Fall
  • Human Traffic

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  • Chungking Express

    ★★★

  • The Battle of Shaker Heights

    ★★★½

  • The Stöned Age

  • Dream for an Insomniac

    ★½

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

1970

★★★ Watched

This movie hit both sides of the coin blending dreams with nightmares where beautiful cinematography got mixed with some disgusting disturbing moments that really didn’t need to happen and violated my eyes. I didn’t mind the gothic and mythic elements, they spoke truth and added to the magical realism of it all but why but did they have to show the kiss between Valerie and her ‘grandma’ and the child marriage in the ways the director chose too. Especially the…

Young Soul Rebels

1991

★★★ Watched

solid flick, the reality kicked in fastttt

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Brazil

1985

★★★½ Liked Watched

The fact that Terry Gilliam was able to build a whole wild and bleak world shedding a light on certain problems that could turn to be cautionary tales was brilliant as there were so many layers concentrated within its comedic dystopian narrative set in a totalitarian society. It turned out to be a fantastic social critique of consumerism, bureaucracy and the dependance on technology. Plus, I loved how nearly every scene had something a little off operating on the side…

The Sixth Sense

1999

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

A skilful psychological horror with a masterpiece of a plot twist that lures upon you so unexpectedly and in leaving you gasping. The fact that these obscure clues were left along the way but discussed so well that no one would ever let their brains question why Dr. Malcolm never has a conversation with anyone else apart from Cole is nothing short of sheer and unbounded brilliance. M. Night Shyamalan crafted the film so intelligently with its tepid pacing, structure…