"You are my best friend. You are my only friend"
This movie hit close to home for me for someone who has Aspergers, I felt myself relating to Max with how he only wears certain clothes and has multiple of the same outfit, awkward around the opposite gender, and his love for random niche shows. I also feel a kinship to Mary, for having a mother who wasn't a particuarly good influence on her, always getting drunk and just wasn't a good mother to her. There's always bad representations for people with Aspergers and they tend to make a joke out of it, but I believe this movie captured the essense of what it's like without it just being a big joke while also allowing comedic effect to play throughout the movie. This is one of the only films ive seen that deals with these topics in a more tasteful way that isn't completely disrespectful towards the people it's about.
10/10

“I don’t think you’re a spider. I think you’re a moth. I’m right, aren’t I? Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things… batting up against the window, just desperate to get in. Well, you’ve done it now. You’ve made your holes in everything. You’ll eat us from the inside out.”
I think Saltburn was one of my favorite movies I watched in 2023. The cinematography was beautiful and the use of colors were mesmerizing, every shot was more beautiful than the last. I personally think it was cool how they had the minotaur in the maze referencing greek mythology and implying that Oliver was the minotaur, and Felix was the angel, hence his costume at the time of death. "Angelic innocence confronts the savage and darker elements of human nature. The juxtaposition between the angel and the Minotaur highlights the conflict between the ideal and the primal; the ethereal and the earthly; the corporeal and the intangible."
10/10

I don't really have much to say about this movie other than it's basically exactly like every other movie in the series. I had to watch it twice in one day and perhaps that was what ruined the appeal to me. I promise whoever is reading this that you can watch any other Saw movie and you'd basically have the same reaction. Mid.

I think this is a movie everyone should watch at least once in their life. I don't have much to say about it other than i thought it was a masterpiece and extremely well written. Nothing bad to say about it but I'm also writing this at 4 am so my thoughts are a bit groggy. Maybe I'll update this review in the next few weeks when I have time to think about it.

"I'm a virgin. A virgin but a whore."
This movie is a social critique to the sex and film industry presented in an absurdist and experimental approach. It shows how many women are sexually oppressed and exploited, especially in the adult entertainment category. I think the cinematography was amazing and I personally love Sion Sono as a director. I don't understand why people are so quick to dismiss it as misogynistic or fetishization, despite it having a male director, I think the point it makes is incredibly clear.

Nimic is a very short film by Yorgos Lanthimos whom I am a very big fan of. The word “nimic” has its roots in the Romanian word, meaning “nothing” as well as “anything,” which I believe fits the film well. It starts off with the main character asking a woman what the time is, to which she starts copying everything he does. She takes over his life, his family, everything about him she becomes. It ends with someone asking him what time it is on a train, the same way he met the woman. It's nihlistic and cynical. Yorgos Lanthimos has a very distinctive directing style which focuses more on changing the societal norms that we are used to, which is why i love this film.
9/10

despite being incredibly lacking in details over what truly happened to Sylvia and just applying cliff notes and dramatizing stuff that never happened, it was decently made. the romanticization of her abusers and trying to make them seem like they didn't truly know what they were doing pissed me off to no end. like a quirky little mentally ill im so innocent moment. extremely upsetting movie. as someone who has a narcissistic borderline mother, i truly hate the children's spineless actions and continuations of Sylvia's torment when they could have just as easily said no, but i suppose (in the movie) paula was rational and stopped near the ending.

I also truly detest how they gave it that god awful hope scene where sylvia escapes and makes it to her parents just to show her ghost seeing her lifeless body. im usually all for bleak nihilistic cinema but the way they decided to execute that scene was so underwhelming and if i was sylvia likens, i would be rolling in my grave over that representation.

either way i balled my eyes out. 4/10

being a huge mads mikklesen fan, i went into this super ecstatic. I loved the cinematography, his acting, literally everything about this movie. that being said; lucas, his son and his friend (i forgot his name) are truly the only good people in this movie. the one thing that pissed me off the most is yea i get it, shes a little girl and kids dont usually lie about SA because where else would they have learned it from, but she flat out admitted that she lied about it more than once and her parents were like "noo sweetie its okay, sometimes kids dont remember stuff like that."

I do appreciate the ending though, i fully believe that Klara's brother was the one who tried to shoot him (not knowing he inadvertently caused his sister to spread the lie) but i think it was moreso to represent lucas as a deer, being hunted for no reason other than self-satisfation. hence why a deer was shown walking around before the shot was taken. or maybe im reading too far into it and it just means he'll never fully be trusted after that accusation by the attempted murder.

it reminds me of what friedrich nietzsche said in 'on truth and lying in a nonmoral sense' because of how everyone repeated the lie and spread it until they themselves believed that lucas harmed their children too. the line between truth and lies becomes a subjective matter of social acceptance.

8.5/10