this felt like it met the expectations it set for itself. kind of reminded me of the a teacher series with nick robinson + kate mara where it tries to walk the line between showing the horror and insidiousness of this type of relationship and showing the excitement of it from the characters’ perspectives (while ideally not just fully leaning into romanticizing the situation) but never finds its footing.
everything about miller’s girl did feel straight out of a fanfiction. the…
tashi only wanted tennis.
art only wanted tashi.
patrick wanted both of them and tennis.
really enjoyed this one!! the electric tension and eroticism throughout was exciting to watch. each of the main three characters is pretty messed up in their own way, but they all want something so badly and sometimes those things intersected and sometimes they conflicted, but ultimately all i wanted was for them to all be happy together (in whatever way that needed to be)!
also…
I had been meaning to watch Moonlight for a long time. Yesterday, I finally got to see it, and it surpassed even the high expectations that I had built for it. Moonlight is now definitely one of my favorite films of all time. Barry Jenkins tells Chiron's story so intimately that I believe any viewer can strongly connect to it. The story is so specific and personal that it becomes universal. Moonlight is about a black boy growing up in…
the more times i watch this, the more i love this film. it’s just so comforting, and not too grand but still pulls me in to be invested in the story and characters. i listen to the soundtrack a lot when i’m working so maybe that’s another aspect of why it feels so familiar. it’s a beautiful story about a girl coming into her own and there’s lots of fun, silly bits thrown in, including jiji the cat’s comedic relief…
