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Mike Mills just gets it. The beauty of life. The pain of life. All the things that conform a human experience and make it so rare and precious and unique. Each life is different, every life is the same.
Jan 23, 2024
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Mike Mills' film Beginners is actually what made me start my Substack. After the credits rolled and the screen went black, I kept walking around, talking to friends and family, unable to shut up about it. I had to keep grinding down the topic of love, how bad people are at it, and how childlike we are in it, over and over again. Then, while watching Fire of Love, I realized Miranda July (recent author of All Fours and another current obsession of mine) was narrating it. Looking at her Wikipedia page I realized that the two of them are MARRIED. They have the most beautiful photo together, young and in love and in bed. When I look at it I try to imagine if they, like me in all my relationships, were also bad at loving and being loved in the beginning.
Sep 18, 2024
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This one received mixed reviews, but I have a fondness for Mike Mills’ work & really liked it, it’s kind of slow but beautifully deals with trying - under difficult circumstances - to take care of & show care for the ones you love
Apr 11, 2024
Directed by Mike Mills & starring Ewan McGregor, Mélanie Laurent, and Christopher Plummer-- I think of this movie often & feel like it profoundly changed me.
It's a poignant story about a man falling in love after his father, who came out as gay late in life, passes away. It's about grief and love, about joy, loneliness, and connection...then how all of those emotions intercede and collide with the events in one's life to inform who we are now and who we are becoming...
For me, this film is beautiful, transcendent catharsis. Consume away! (& if you like it, I also like C'mon, C'mon by the same director)
May 13, 2024
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it's not only fun but deeply moving, that connection we create together. listening to the words of someone you don't know. getting a look into another life, sometimes very different than your own, sometimes very similar. it feels like you're not alone. it feels like praying.
Jan 23, 2024
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yesterday my girlfriend was sobbing in bed because she felt like a failure. at first, i didn't know what to do. i tried to help her on her tasks, i tried to do the job for her. it didn't work. it didn't seem to be helping at all. so i stopped and laid down next to her. and i held her hand. and we stayed like that for half an hour. then, slowly, carefully, she started to get closer to me. she hugged me. she was still crying but she was now letting me into that pain. and i thought: this is what i want for you. this is what i want for us. to be able to rest with each other.
Jan 23, 2024
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I’m alone. I’m alone forever. I am the loneliest person to ever exist. I gave myself that title. Sometimes I wear it proudly. Sometimes it breaks my heart. I am missing something and I don’t know what it is. Maybe I never will. I am looking for something that takes my breath away.
Feb 4, 2024