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same energy

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not me simping over characters that would instantly kill me 🧘🏻‍♀️

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have you guys ever been cooked so much that your favorite character has been missing for years, none of their friends mention him, and exactly 12 years later, the mangaka only mentions his name to confirm he is mc's past version (i need to reconnect with nature after whatever tf that chapter was🚶🏻‍♀️)

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Something I think is a bit of an issue is the myth that the "great" films from the past are all boring, unrelatable and incomprehensible. That some black and white foreign film from Sweden can only be a really slow, dour experience. I'll admit that I was guilty of that thought at one point too.

The reality is that lots of these great films are actually broadly enjoyable. The reason they're considered great isn't because of elitism, some snobby ideal that they're hard to watch and therefore better, but because they're just extremely well made and stylized films. The black and white Swedish film? That describes a number of Ingmar Bergman films like The Seventh Seal. And The Seventh Seal is hilarious, even now. I honestly thought it was going to just be really serious and depressing but it's a life riot (when not being serious and depressing). There's a scene where a man is trading insults with his wife's lover, but he's not very smart so another man is whispering insults to him to use. It's about a knight that plays chess with death for a chance at living, but death is a cheating bastard that delivers one liners before he kills someone.

I know that a lot of people really only watch whatever is popular and recent, and that's fine, but I don't want people to miss out on truly great films because they think they'd be hard to watch. I did a showing of a silent film at work (One Week by Buster Keaton) and everyone was enthralled by the stunt work on display. It's over 100 years old and it still holds up because there's no expiration date on quality.

If you are looking to engage with older films though, skip Tarkovsky for now. Stalker and Solaris are two incredible films (Stalker is probably top ten for me), but those are absolutely the cliche of some slow, hard to follow "true art is incomprehensible" film. Terrence Malick as well. Excellent filmmaker, but watching The Tree of Life is work. Kurosawa and Hitchcock are some of my favorite directors and every movie they make is straightforward and thrilling. High and Low is the most incredible police procedural I've seen in my life, and Psycho is still a tense, thrilling experience.

To be clear there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking the most popular stuff. I used to watch every marvel movie that came out, and I still think Wandavision is excellent. I have fond memories of going to watch Captain America with friends. I loved the Barbie movie and that's in the top 15 highest grossing films of all time. I just think that there's a lot of great films to explore if you're willing to try.

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A problem about losing friends that I don’t see a lot of people talking about is when you go to listen to music that you heavily associate with memory’s of them, it just makes you really sad or angry while listening to it. So many songs have been ruined for me because of this.

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Well fuck

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HE IS MY FUCKING UNIVERSE

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BRUUUUUUH i wanted to be both at the same time

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ive been thinking about this all day now you will also think DONT BLAME ME

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y'all crazy for this admit it

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today's meal looks so yummy

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idk how can i survive

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If not for yourself.

Do it for Yeosang.

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I didn't have to do that but i did cuz we all needed it

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ateez details icon please

ohh sure there are a lot of but i had no internet so i couldn't share...

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they are busy being beauty not a big thing