happy birthday emma!!! so glad we became oomfs this year bc i love seeing all your thoughts on the tl. movie that's been eating my brain recently is compartment no 6 which i watched bc it's like The Cooler Anora, but my fave of the year (besides all we imagine as light) is probably perfect days

when matt damon pushed cooper off the cliff i was sitting there and shaking my head to let everyone know that if he had listened to women this never would have happened

i remember when i saw it i kept looking at steven pasquale and amber gray and thinking "when are they going to sing"

the way everyone from awards voting bodies to tumblr users apparently forgot about dune 2

interesting... this description of a film was created in a lab to appeal to me

like wow it sounds like she's amazing in it. can i see it

every time i see a new result for a critics group i think Wow i love marianne jean baptiste in hard truths... would love to see it someday

literally what is the point of being a creative in community theatre looking to improve your craft and then just watching a broadway bootleg and doing exactly what they did... was it worth it. was it worth me losing all respect for the production and liking it far less in retrospect

regardless, i will never forget the methlike high of watching little women 2019 in the theater and realizing that they were actually giving the "amy in europe" part of the story substantial screentime rather than just shunting it to the side. Amy MARCH💜

it's so funny thinking about how when i was 11 or w/e getting on the internet for the first time i looked it up and was stunned to find that people really hated amy. 2019 film fixed her reputation but kinda overcorrected and now people misunderstand her in a different way

like i'm not REALLY an akgae because i pretty much like all the characters, it's one of my favorite books of all time, of the sisters i'm the most like jo, etc, but in the end the amy march stannie always comes out. that's just how i engage w the text. through an amy march lens

it's pure greed that he got to have two earth-shattering yaois and be the best baseball player in the world

the most insane part of the story is when ippei was directly confronted about this by the team in english and shohei was IN THE ROOM but he couldn't understand so ippei lied about what was going on IN JAPANESE because the english speakers couldn't understand that. bonkers. where's the biopic

and then you became the best player in the world and the whole time your interpreter was with you and was the one person you could always rely on and then one day you found out that he was stealing millions from you to fuel his gambling addiction and also he had lied about his college degree

it might have been a bit cloying if it only showed hirayama as contented with his life of helping others without seeking recognition, but the fact that his loneliness and desire to be important to someone live alongside his kindness/selflessness makes it very good

yes so true re: the rice cooker scene's placement in the film! it shapes your understanding of the character but it's also just one part of her. and yeah, a documentary starts being subjective the second you decide on the subject(s) and therefore decide this story is worth telling LOL

and i can't help but contrast this with, like, the rice cooker scene in all we imagine as light... in that moment we totally understand this woman's loneliness and longing. would it have been too hard to include even one moment like that for ani? this is why sean baker is a fake fake documentarian