Pei

Pei

Favorite films

  • Love Exposure
  • Pierrot le Fou
  • Cléo from 5 to 7

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  • Blue Again

    ★★★★

  • In Between Days

    ★★★★½

  • Escape from New York

    ★★★½

  • Starship Troopers

    ★★★★

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Blue Again
★★★★ Liked Watched

Blue Again is a very ambitious movie -- not just in length, but also how the concept of change is explored at multifaceted levels, and what it means to each character.

Aside from exploring what it means to be "unique", "left out", and to "join in", Blue Again masterfully tangles all these elements and more through the viewpoint of the protagonist, Ay, by how she experiences change within the world around her (and beyond her sight). As Ay tries to…

In Between Days
★★★★½ Liked Watched

projected me into past i never had, but it feels so real

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Love & Pop
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

love & pop brings tiqqun's "theory of the young-girl" to shame, despite it being released in 1998, a year before tiqqun's essay was published in france. it too being a window into capitalism and its constituents, love & pop presents all the points in tiqqun's shoddy essay and more.

love and pop is unabashedly candid. the movie does one hell of an excellent job in funneling the secondhand experience of being a high school city girl doing high school city girl things,…

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
★★★★ Watched

3.0+1.0 tragically falls and directs emphasis towards heterosexual childbirth-oriented normie-ism and popular-opinion-versions of stability. although if i were to take this fault lightly, i would just view it as the most tangible way out to conclude the inner turmoil that the world in evangelion has. and it does make sense.

much like when i fumble whether or not i want a crunchwrap supreme or a cheesy burrito while at the counter, but then get an epiphany that i actually wanted a quesadilla. i proceed with my order.

beverage pairing: mountain dew baja blast from the fountain at taco bell

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