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I have an unhealthy obsession with movies and Letterboxd seems like a good outlet for it.
I like to think I have broad tastes.
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Summertime 1955
There’s a scene about halfway through where Katherine Heburn is sitting at a table alone and she sets it up in hopes that someone will come and sit down with her and then he doesn’t and she has this broken look on her face, and I think that’s the moment when this film clicked for me. Loneliness is a theme that I consistently seem to connect with. This film is heartfelt, entertaining, beautiful in the way it shoots Venice, the…
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Punch-Drunk Love 2002
Love this film for two main reasons.
Firstly, how it depicts the feeling of falling in love, especially from the perspective of someone socially anxious or introverted. I've yet to see another movie capture that frantic excitement, that anxiety that comes not just with finding someone you actually connect with, but also with starting to realize there's a very real chance that they might like you back. That feeling is very real and it's one of the most simultaneously exciting…
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TÁR 2022
Really clever how it toys with our perceptions of this woman. Based on what we see, the easy conclusion is yes she’s deserving of repurcussions for her abuses in the end. Cleverly though, it gives enough to suggest maybe there’s more to the story than what we’re seeing, in a bit of a metatextual parallel to how the broader public in the film aren’t really getting the whole picture. In that sense I kind of don’t know if the movie…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022
I heard a lot of Spiderverse comparisons going in, and I definitely see them, but what I'm actually reminded most of by this is Rango. In that it's fairly mature and violent and existential and the main characters go through similar archs. All the characters are great, Death is a terrific villain with an incredibly intimidating presence, Kitty Softpaws is way more likeable than in the first one, Jack Horner, Jiminy Cricket, Goldie and the Bears are all an insane amount…
