Jake

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Maybe I’ll finish my watchlist one day, right?.. right?

Cleveland, OH

Favorite films

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Flipped 2010

½ Watched by Jake 24 Apr 2022

Watched during extended hospital stay last week. 👎
Se7en 1995

★★★★ Rewatched by Jake 24 Apr 2022

Rewatched during extended hospital stay last week.

River's Edge 1986

★★★★½ Watched by Jake 11 Jun 2019

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

River’s Edge (1986)

The film sinks us into the lives and minds of a group of teenagers in a small Northern Californian town. As a result, we descend into a morally ambiguous realm filled with prosthetic legs, gun wielding 10 year olds and truly radical dialogue. The adolescents in this film are not only detached from reality but they each construct their own reality in their heads that they slip into deeper and deeper when faced with the death of…
Good Time 2017

★★★★ Watched by Jake 14 Jan 2019

The Safdie Brothers seem to have a direct line into the human nerve system and love to watch us squirm. Good Time is a film full of tension that never lets up and only presses down harder and faster. Like the brothers’ first film, “Heaven Knows What”, this film is led by a strong lead character scraping and scratching moment to moment just to maintain what they deem a worthwhile existence. There is a lot to digest with the stylized editing and beautifully tormenting score (by Oneohtrix Point Never), but this is a film to be experienced as a whole.