Letterboxd — Your life in film

Anima, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is a short piece of film, made to creatively describe the shattering reality of growing older — knowing you’ll have to live day by day with routines, work, survival fogging up the mind. We see multiple people in this piece, dancing simultaneously, yet not together, close, yet far away — everything in this is connected, but is yet so different. The cinematography in this is gorgeous. There is a very experimental aspect to this…

Mulholland Drive, directed by David Lynch, is a movie about the shattering truth of what Hollywood can drive a person to do. At the beginning, we meet a bright-eyed young actress named Betty Elms. She travels to Hollywood with hopes of being a star, only to meet a woman named Rita, who has amnesia because of a car crash. This movie focuses on these two women searching for clues and answers across Los Angeles in order to figure out Rita’s…

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a film by Yorgos Lanthimos, that is is focused an a teenager coping with his dad’s tragic death. But soon, we witness his behaviour take a bizarre turn of events that builds up to an agonizing end. 

I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t really like this movie at first thought. When the credits rolled in, I thought the ending was stupid. I heard so much about this so-called “psychological thriller” and was disappointed. …

Requiem for a Dream is a horrifying film about four different people and the downward spiral they go through via drug use.

This movie is so disgustingly beautiful. I have never seen any film portray the depravity and craving of a person dealing with drugs so accurately. While most movies romanticize drug use and addictions, Requiem for a Dream diggs into the negative impacts and lifestyles that come with drug addiction. No filter is present in the movie and realistic…