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a 2017 mexican film that explores colonialism, shame, desire, the said and the unsaid, language, and forgiveness!! so amazing, i cried four times while watching. would definitely recommend!!
Mar 1, 2024
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Feb 19, 2025
i watched this last year and i‘m still thinking about it .. i will recommend it to anyone who will listen! it’s a spanish series directed by los javis (known for paquita salas and veneno) and it’s about a mother and her two children and her indoctrination into a cultish situation and how this impacts their entire lives. it’s just so incredible and the only problem with the whole thing is that i can’t find it with english subtitles except for on the collector’s edition box set of blurays so it’s hard to recommend to a more international audience. but if you speak spanish please watch it 😓😓 i think it has been released on a streaming platform in other parts of europe as well (france, possibly) but yeah .. it’s really well made and really powerful….
Nov 14, 2024
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one of my all time favorite movies. i get emotional just thinking about it!!! "The dialogue features multiple indigenous languages including Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, and Wanano, as well as Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin, and English, with English subtitles." this film explores the destructive impact of colonialism on the amazon and its inhabitants through the perspective of a shaman at different points of his life (two stories 30 years apart) in which he encounters a german ethnographer and an american botanist, both searching for a rare plant.
Feb 8, 2024
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read from 2021 abt modern counterculture, rejecting tech overlords, and the dark forests of the internet
"To be truly countercultural today, in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform, which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.”
Feb 20, 2024
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well-written article analyzing cronenburg's films and contrasting them with today's sexual politics and lack of eroticism.
passage i enjoyed: In fact, we are not impermeable packages of preformed desires, importing our likes and dislikes around with us from one encounter to the next like papers in a briefcase. An erotic craving is inextricable from the ferment that foams up when oneself is sluiced into another. Not only is it impossible for us to know whether an encounter will be deflating or transformative but we cannot know what sort of metamorphosis will ensue if the sex is as jarring as we can only hope it will be.
Feb 19, 2024
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and marvel at the progress you've made. im reading my old journal entries and i was actually a mess, but i've grown so much in a year :) always love and appreciate your old self because she's still within you
Apr 2, 2024