films & series

15 / 06 / 24 a trip ahahah, just love non linear narrative structures. a film thats made for rewatches!! i love that he was so concerned about giving his trust to other people, when in the end who he couldn’t trust was himself. and i just love how the story is told from the end to the beginning!! (not even that, it’s literally told from the beginning and the end simultaneously which they meet and converge at the same point in the middle?? separating it with colour vs b&w made it rlly clear and its really impressively well done) it really does recreate leonard’s unknowing state of mind, really cool idea. — 16 / 06 / 24 a much needed rewatch, everything makes so much sense. i j found out about the easter egg. i always eat them up when directors put it in hahaha because its insane how we never notice when they slip it in… also i love the little details, how when teddy tells him a lie he wrote it in italics but i just didnt piece together that his tattoo “remember sammy jankis” is also a lie?? which means leonard’s short term memory loss is just psychological, because he knows subconsciously that what he believes about the sammy jankis story is a lie and is instead a memory of him, that he does have to ability to remember after the incident, he has just convinced himself it is a story of before the incident of sammy.

27 / 10 / 2025 honestly the only medical show i really enjoyed they found a way to portray how gruesome this industry can be but also made it so fucking funny… quite an unexpected surprise… not many shows make me laugh this much

29 / 05 / 24 most of the time science fiction can be really weird and silly, which this series kind of is but i’m so into it!! love love love the themes it touches on. like how ye wenjie feels doomed by humanities narrow perspective and greed which was heightened being in the era of the chinese communist revolution, literal chills. also how development and evolution varies depending on circumstances and species, which i thought was interesting. i think this series lies between entertainment or drama from the characters and the actual idea or plot of it. what i loved about the characters was jin and will… will’s inner conflict of family vs friends, being someone’s family for their whole life which i guess out of necessity, how the love doesn’t always equate or even exceed the people you choose to be with. i think it’s an interesting debate of family and friends or lovers, i mean you can argue about stability, reliability, freedom, choice, etc. i was really entertained but i think the end felt a little long for me, the solutions weren’t as satisfying as it can be(?) the science part of it yeah is pretty superficial, really quite weird, and sounds like a plot just to shock people with existing conspiracy theories. it’s not a perfect story but i’m pretty impressed as i think science fiction is so difficult to do right with limited time and increasing demand for more complex ideas but also accuracy and entertainment value. you can’t really get it all right. (so much harder to do than say a coming of age or a horror)

10 / 06 /24 wait why was that kind of real

20 / 09 / 24 wowwww myyyy kinda love story… so good when romance is incorporated in this way and not the only thing happening in the film. anyways, language and the idea of how ppl think bc of it is so fascinating and i love how they explored this to a greater scale with the heptapod language. i love how it explored the idea of a non linear time and predestination!! but i wonder the extents of being able to experience time simultaneously, because, would you just be getting flash backs and flash forwards?; would you experience time simultaneously?. also wether predestination have to come with knowing the future, is it that free will does exist and with every decision, the future and past you know alters with it?; or is it that you can make decisions in every part of your “timeline” whenever; or would you just cruise through life with no free will as if youre watching your own movie unfold while knowing everything like rewatching a film. because if its the first and latter one then surely some kind of linear scale and progression is happening. to add on how would the concept of death fit into this. moving on… hmm i dont fully get the thing with how the heptapods wrote. i get that its not in correspondence to sound like the english alphabet but more similar to chinese characters with one “splash” assigned to a certain idea or i guess “word”. they made it seem like they’ve conveyed it in some sort of foreign way when they’ve showed that each part of the circle corresponds to a word, and though they say its “non linear” it just seems to me as a group of nouns and adjectives with no grammar placed together in a symbol which is their form of a “sentence” which of course cant have beginning and end if its just a list of words in a circlelike they’ve shown deciphered. the only thing i didnt love is how they got all the countries to unite is through the chinese general giving her details of his phone number in the future and all of a sudden everything is resolved. back to what i love about this, i really like the editing in this and how the editor has scenes that are longer than your average film scene because the main editor said “sometimes it feels like you’re being manipulated too much by the movie and feels inauthentic” and thats so true!! the aesthetics are nice as well and i feel that has to be true for any film that i rate highly. what made me love this film even more are the details, the cyclical theme going through with the first scene and the last scene to be the same, and the soundtrack sounds the same played normally and reversed which is cool. love love love movies that has got me fooled from the beginning, how the “flash backs” from the start are actually “flash forwards” playing w the idea of perspective!!

06 / 10 / 2024 the settt oh my god, so so so beautiful. genuinely one of the best natural sets ive seen in film. i loved that kya was really into nature and the environment, collecting seashells and feathers j made me like her more haha. i dont think the film is focused on the mystery or thriller part of the story which im not too mad about since they did excuse well on the other parts. the romance was cute but nothing crazy or exciting, pretty typical. i liked how they talked about the cycle of life and death at the end too. im not always really into when films do flash fowards where they progress through age really quickly like they did at the end but i guess i do understand it was for the plot.

14 / 08 / 24 ahhh the cinematography is so good, especially the wide angle shots at the beach and the scenes lit by that warm fire glow. the plot is not the most eventful but i think it is made up by the good cinematography as the mood of their love is portrayed really well. i think how slow and quiet this film is very well used to, how heart aching and frustrating their love is, theres not much they could do freely in their era.