What’s interesting about this is that I didn’t really like it, but I enjoyed watching parts of it in IMAX and getting to talk about it with some friends afterward. To get this out of the way, the ad placements and this being made by Amazon and some film continuity errors took me out of the movie a lot. But whatever, I can get over it, and also, I really wanted to buy in so I could enjoy myself.
...Accepting that no matter what, for as long as I live, I will continue to incur small injuries doing kitchen work, perhaps as a payment for the delicious things I make, or because of, like, statistics. Also, I only have waterproof bandaids in my house?
Fragrances I’m enjoying:
Perfumes I thought I was obsessed with but now am sick of:
...I don’t remember where exactly I heard of this movie first, but when I read the premise I was like, okay let’s fkn go. That was a month ago and I figured I would have to find a version online somewhere at some point. Super happy I got to see it in a big theatre (AMC 13, yay).
I was really, really touched and endeared. There was an aching (for something, romance, attention) from Harry Melling’s character Colin that was so, like, real feeling. When you have nothing, and have nothing to lose, and so you can lose yourself entirely to a person, under whose gaze you can feel like have something, finally, maybe even be somebody.
...It’s a shame that we can only really know if someone had the most perfect stomach or liver once they’re dead. Thinking about bodybuilding again. We can control, to an extent, how much muscle we put on and where. We can also control, to an extent, how much fat we put on (but not where). But if someone ate the most amazing-est diet with optimal hydration and kept their large intestine absolutely pristine, we can’t really pull it out and admire it :( Or if someone fell and broke their shin bone and then got bone spurs growing out of the healed area, if those spurs had a cool structure, we can’t really know without operating (or taking a ton of expensive imaging).
...After going to a doctor’s appointment and then getting lunch at KazuNori, I was able to catch a showing of this at the Time Square AMC. It felt so familiar to be in that area with my MoviePass card. A coworker told me to watch this and described it as a black comedy that escalates quickly.
I thought a lot of it was so beautiful. The striking yellow colors of those trees when Mansu visits Beom-mo’s house for the first time. The comedic beats. Honestly the way the mom and dad had such different approaches to helping keep the family afloat was too real too, like. Got our ass.
...It’s actually so jarring how when I look up and see the moon, it seizes me so wholly and immediately. Like walking home from the train at night and being like, “Wait why is it so bright right now?” and looking up and boom, clear sky, blueish half moon. Even just now, I was just opening my window and there’s this weird luminous presence above me so I look up and boom. Moon. It is so bright and seriously there.
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