katecho

katecho

Favorite films

  • Titane
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Worst Person in the World

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  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★★★

  • To the Bone

    ½

  • Challengers

    ★★★½

  • American Psycho

    ★★★★

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To the Bone
½ Rewatched

the details are off, the tone is weirdly sanitized, and the whole thing has that netflix sheen that makes real suffering look aesthetic-adjacent in a way that’s almost offensive.

i keep coming back to it not because it’s accurate (it’s not), not because it’s comforting (it isn’t), but because it scratches some very specific, very ugly part of my brain that wants to see itself reflected even if the mirror is warped and insulting.

it’s like i only reach for this movie when i’m either at my lowest or when i’m doing “better” but miss the clarity of being unwell.

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Resurrection
½ Watched

60 people walked out of the Cannes premiere in the first 30 minutes and honestly they were the lucky ones. this was painful. physically painful.

my friend is getting botted for saying it’s bad—which it is—and it’s infuriating because now we’re being gaslit in real time for not liking a movie that doesn’t like us back.

and please, don’t hit me with the “you just don’t get it because it’s a different cultural lens” take. shut up. i grew up…

Die My Love
Watched

i wanted to love this so badly. lynne ramsay is back again!! it’s country horror!! it’s robert pattinson and jennifer lawrence feral in the woods!!

the sound design is gorgeous. the framing is def up there. the slow rot of domesticity soaked in midwestern heat IS GREAT.

but the way hypersexuality as self-harm is handled IS SO BAD. it’s exploitative and shallow in a way that made me question whether this was ghost-directed by a man. jennifer lawrence’s breakdown ends…