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The 2021 Joachim Trier movie where this girl is running and where she didn’t say the line about the things one fears the most, no, that was actually her dying of cancer ex.
So my best friend and his new partner (my friend-in-law) are harsh on the main character for her allegedly unmoral doings (cheating, being a pain in the ass, never settling for what’s good for her), but I like the little norwegian sinner. The way she already cheated in her mind and heart, but will state otherwise out loud to jam her thoughts.
Im not going for the disturbing the comfortable quote, no, that’s a low hanging fruit. But why consume works of fiction to judge the sinful, and not find our own worst fears and weaknesses in them? As if the title didn’t have it coming.
By the way, the ending sucks ass
5/5 in first rewatch
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I have a thousand more questions and then more.
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PS: I sincerely wanna thank the person that recommended this to me here on PYI!!
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