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that feeling of noticing how special the thing you're watching is... not too different from really feeling your age when back home during the holidays - looking up at the moon, moon looking back at you. keep thinking that whenever my soul feels quiet it's cause i'm not observing all the details of the world around me enough. this movie is so kind and observant and made me ache for my mother's hand on my head, for driving fast screaming car is god, we are never gonna fucking die, for the things we say underneath the things we say
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ive watched this every christmas eve my entire life so my understanding of it and relationship to it grows and evolves with me. on every rewatch there’s something i “get” a little more or can relate to that passed me by last time, which i think is parallel to the themes of the movie itself - everything you go through has significance. i can cry thinking about it. the only movie i consider perfect.
Oct 30, 2024
The holdovers (2023) absolutely embodies everything a good film should. From the simple and beautiful cinematography to the remarkably fitting soundtrack, the story is served on a silver platter that is reminiscent of a time gone by. This film will make you think “I guess the really do make movies like that still” The performances from our leads and subsequent performers are impeccable and touching. Oh and the writing, so human and real, it touches on the very core of us as people and our needs and wants and desires.
Jan 7, 2025
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I’m always keeping my thoughts on the few films I choose to write about solely within the pages of my notes up, so I figured what the heck! Maybe someone out there might like the two cents I want to spend on talking about a film that moved me :] Spoilers, ofc!!!
(2/2/25) Absolutely beautiful film. Watched it with katlafo, and we were both sobbing messes by the end. Throughout the beginning, I spent so much time trying to analyze the film, thinking I HAD to figure out the underlying message of a film I’d heard so much about before I’d even truly experienced it for myself. Man.
The scene where Greg shows Rachel her film was so beautiful. Again, I tried to pin point what it all meant in the moment—the constant cuts to Greg and Rachel’s pained expressions, the long shots of seemingly symbolic stop-motion—but I realized that that was exactly what was keeping me from what I longed for. So I sat there, and felt. And cried, and cried.
Later, the scene where Greg chooses to go to Rachel’s room, allowing himself to simply exist in the silence, taking in the remnants of her life, it was all so beautiful; the tears just wouldn’t stop, haha.
While I didn’t leave this film with some life changing message I was subconsciously searching for, I feel this movie reminds me to love myself the way I do others; and to do things because they matter to ME, because I care about them.
While I want to say I’ll never trust anything that tells me someone or something won’t die at the end, I know that’s not true.
Feb 3, 2025
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fuck it going giggly googly eye mode
Feb 18, 2024
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quote from st. augustine. he ate that
Feb 12, 2024
when i need to write secrets, things i'm ashamed about, sexy sentences, or anything i don't want any eyes on (not even mine) i write as small as i possibly can. this past weekend i had a lot of floating anxieties that i committed to paper this way and free writing in this format helped offload thoughts that were making me loopy.
it looks kind of psychotic by the time i'm done a page but also kind of beautiful?
(edited to fuck to preserve secrecy but still give you an idea of what it looks like. this is on a folded-up A4 sheet of paper zine)
Mar 13, 2024