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  Funny People 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2023

  Becoming marginally famous has really made you an asshole.
  
  Just put this on and chill, man 🍹
  Nice soundtrack, Adam Sandler is goood.
  (Just ignore how uncomfortably skinny Seth Rogen looks.)

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  In the Cut 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2023

  Heterosexual desire from women's perspective and the suspended violence irrevocably associated with it are rarely done better in film. The phenomenology ie the way you simply experience the movie puts In The Cut in great company — films that offer the closest, incisive look into life. Jane Campion's gaze is warm, sympathetic and detached, genius at the same time.

  IMO Meg Ryan's, whose most well known work is situated in the New York of dream and fairytale or at the…

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  Rebecca 1940

  ★★★½ Rewatched 31 Jul 2020 5

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

  Love some of his other works, but Hitchcock gets this wrong.

  Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca is, at its heart of hearts, neither a romance nor a thriller. It is a psychological piece based on women's subjugation by society by making them submit to roles, through subtle emotional manipulation in the name of love, because of which they become willing to forgive their husbands' most vile crimes and trespasses. You see, in the book Max de Winter murders Rebecca. There is…

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  The Age of Innocence 1993

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Apr 2021

  Society can be so disgusting when it dissuades you, insidiously, from what you love most. It's so so cruel.
  So can love not survive it?

  Perhaps it can. But just as memory or "abstractly, serenely.........a complete vision of all that he had missed", as Scorsese puts it. Cinema at its most heartbreakingly poetic.

  Just say I'm old fashioned. That should be enough. Says Newland Archer to his son as old memories of his age of innocence come rushing in —…