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Written for the screen disguised as a novel with the ultimate goal of movie adaptation and the author read all John Green's novels and lumped up all the female characters, Alaska the runaway, Margie in Paper towns and Hazel grace quite literally and named a stupid character with a stupid name Grace Town, Henry Page. What sort of bull crap is this fuck ass story. And why are they whispering for the whole goddamn movie???

Token black lesbian girl with her Latino girlfriend, that scene in the beginning where she is staring at the girl and they really want us the audience to know that she likes her... can it be any worse??? White guy friend is in the movie only to shout 'Henrick' or what's the stupid nickname he calls him.

I hate that the female character is just there to give the main guy a puss to pound, literally. The depth to both of them is soooo forced, the dialogue? who talks like that? and the schizoid personality they want one legged girl to have, oh I'm so cool, I don't care about being in the writing club and tomorrow, 'um actually, let me join'

they really make the fights have ZZEROOO substance, why are you playing this song in your room? don't fix me? give me poison, I might die faster, this is torture. Her kissing him in front of the memorial of the boy, what's the idea? Forgetting the day of her accident? Come on now.... I'm not done yet, like 15 mins remaining, but this movie will not even get the distinguishment of being rated. You will be ignored like trash on the bridge of Oshodi. Stay there and fester.

I forgot to mention, the failed attempts to make the sister seem cool, she's training to be a neurosurgeon, she is using neurotransmitter analogies and big words to seem coo, talking about oxytocin... i have never fast forwarded a movie so fast before in my life. My goodness. They really want the chemical from the title to mean something, it is bad. So bad.

It was cool. I like that style of movies, but they are only good maybe once or twice in 6 months. Sure the plot kept moving forward and I kept watching and I liked the ending in a way although I'd have wished Andy didn't unalive himself, but all in all, pretty cool

I'm almost 40, I want to be in love. I don't care if we're poor or struggling...

It is well.

Movie is over... What sort of rubbish was that?

Is this what's coming out of Vietnam?

Am I surprised though? It's like it is a predominantly Christian nation. Wtf was that???

A woman cannot be happy unless she has a man?

She ended the movie in tears? I don't understand?

What's the lesson here abi what are we talking about? Don't be born into a bad family? Or don't let your father be a gambler? Abi what's this? And if you make it in your career and you're 41 with no man, it is all naught? I don't understand?

Pls... If this is what is inside Vietnam, let it stay there. Don't let me see another one of these nonsense again. In my life.

The part where she fought tbat bly at work and she talked back to those neighborhood watch women... That was the only good part wallahi. Everything else was gbef. Pure gbef.

These phrasally titled movies... Very indie coded. Liked this movie. Should have reviewed it immediately after watching and not after watching IWTV cos hiw am I supposed to rate this.

I think there is something inherently wrong with me. I don't think my brain is working how it should. I don't know what it is that is wrong with me but I just feel it. That something is not right. After season 1 of IWTV I couldn't see the all encompassing love between Louis and Lestat. I remember feeling that I could hear about the love but I couldn't see it. In Season 2 I understood Louis' love for Claudia, I could see it, but when Lestat came back and saved Louis and not Claudia with him, I still couldn't understand it. Going into season 3, I was ready to pretend that they love each other and I knew it. I was ready to convince myself... And I did... Until Ep 6. Lestat singing Brutal Love... To Louis.

Something about the lyrics and how it's sang and Gabriella being there but her in the back with the focus on Louis, about Lestat on the verge of tears staring down Louis as he says 'give me that brutal love, I want it' and Louis uncomfortable in his seat because even though he can't read Lestat's mind, what else was there to read when it was all out on stage with the back up singers harmonizing to the heavens? What else needed to be said? Cutting straight from that episode to Louis finding out about the unholy relations with his mother and Circling first from disbelief to disgust to confronting him and then comforting him. Louis is first flabbergasted by the information and starts judging him an doing so heavily with disgust and Lestat reminds him of Fraudia whom he paid to be Claudia and the other girl to be Madeline and in that moment it dawns on Louis. We're all sinners albeit in different forms. Sam Reid is a phenomenal actor and God knows Jacob Anderson is incredible my goodness! The panic attack, the understanding right after. The calm.

That's one if the problems with me. I cannot forgive. I can't understand the other person. I can't be un-offended. Maybe that's why I am the way that I am. I try to do it once, afraid to make mistakes, fail, be called out and call out on it and then move on from it. I can't. I realized today or was it yesterday that for all my life I have lived Hedonistically. In the pursuit of joy and happiness and pleasures only. I strongly avoid pain and negativities, embarrassment and failures. For myself and others too. That's why I keep the conversation going and I pretend as if I didn't just see an embarrassing thing for another person. That's why I look away when someone trips and I find it disheartening when others don't do the same for me. What I'm trying to say in all this is that, I am recognizing my mistakes in the guidebook of my existence. I am willing to change. To sit in the uncomfortable and to look when others fall and ne okay with falling. Brutal love made me feel something I haven't felt in a while! It made me want to cry. For Louis and for Lestat. Lemuel is just like Louis said 'a great lay' insignificant in the grand story of these eternally bonded lovers. I see it now. I see it.

Solid 10/10 episode.

I feel too dumb to rate it. I know beautiful and highly intelligent and meaningful things were happening on the screen, but I felt like I am not in the club and soni didn't get it. I'll say a 7 only because I knows it's great, but I can't comprehend it. I'll say this though. I understood the importance of the line 'I'm not queer, I'm disembodied'. That line as a puzzle piece in the whole movie.

I'm still watching it. I'm 1hr in and all I'll say is this. This movie is not for me. Not for me at all. I am too infuriated by Iris. How can you take someone's freedom just like that. Because you're crazy? I don't understand.

I read the Wikipedia plot because the moment she tied him up and started acting weird, I knew. I just knew.

I wish he'd have reported her to the police. She should be punished.

I wish I could write this review in Ukrainian or Russian but I seem to be forgetting my Ukrainian and whatever new words in Russian I learn, I can't remember. So I will go on in English... With great shame.

This movie was recently added to my 'To watch' list. I had nothing about the movie except the IG Reel of two men in love under orange lighting on a bed in what looked like old times... Check check check and check.

Today I felt in the mood for it and I watched it. I will say something though before I go on... When I watched CMBYN, this movie Firebird is what I expected CMBYN to be. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, the watching eyes the disdain and disgust for the relationship and it never came.

This movie was beautiful. I liked the story like, Олег, капитан роман був прекрасний! His acting was splendid, his accent was appreciable, very natural. And he's Ukrainian. I really enjoyed his scenes. Reminded me a lot of Hawk. In soooooo many ways. His face, his military job, his double life, his marriage. Maybe that's why I liked him. Luisa was beautiful too. I loved her acting. She's Russian which is understandable but she was really good in the movie too. Although the movie does not pass the 'bechtel' test. But it's okay. Felt sorry for her though. My goodness. I think constantly seeing people like her is the reason I do not fight tooth and nail for anything. This life, sometimes, your punishment is that you get what you want. I believe the universe has a strong will to make things okay for me and so for that reason I do not put roots anywhere or set goals and aspirations so unmovable and unshakable. Cos I may get them... And that would be my punishment.

To Sergey, our actor... He was a terrible actor IMO. Didn't like his character too hot later towards the end. In the beginning I liked him but the moment he got with роман I disliked his character. His accent too was terrible. The real Сергей is someone special. To experience such during the cold War... What a life to have lived. Without reading the book, I will go out on a limb to say it must be better than the movie. I liked the cinematography though but I disliked that the movie was in English and not in original Russian or something. Anyways... Glad I watched it...

This movie is a gem. To be fair, I know I didn't give it a fair chance or a fair shot, I was on my phone while watching the movie and missed a lot of subtleties. The movie is very visual as we have a lot of old people placed in India, a beautiful country. Although I did not like the saviour complex of ALL the white people and how they treated India as EXOTIC even though it's in the title... I know, I know. But this perpetuates the idea to foreigners that India is like a zoo animal that should be looked at from the outside while it's in a cafe and once you're done, you go back. I love the relationships between all the old people. It was very beautiful. Such a blessed cast. About half of the cast is dead even. What a gem. More of it pls. Hopefully I can give it a rewatch and find gems that I may have missed.

After about 5 months of picking up and dropping it and picking it up again and dropping it to finally pick it up yesterday and read the last 7 chapters... I am finally done. I can proudly say I have read a Dostoyevsky book. And not just any book, but the brothers Karamazov. What a ride, what a journey that was. I have never seen such a style of writing before. A story of others being retold by someone else, we don't know who but we are supposed to trust this person who is there in private moments of delirium and present in public disagreements. A book wherein the first 5 chapters or so, has no single dialogue but still the story continues. It's a book that happens over the course of days and weeks but so many things happen and so many people interact and we witness every single one and so the book is 800 pages long. This book really shows (but shows is the most inefficient and lazy word here) maybe it 'encompasses' what it really means to be alive. A lot of human interactions and trivialities, philosophies and the mundane. All culminating into a lived experience. A life. My favorite brother turned out to be Ivan. I haven't read other people's essays on the book or videos on the book this is my unbiased and crude essay on the book.

To be fair, when it was over I brother a sigh of relief. Yes, I was happy to be finally done but I was also saddened by the lives of the people in the story. Maybe except Grushenka. She is my queen. Spat in the faces of people she didn't care for and loved openly. She didn't have a care in the world... Except for money and eventually Mitya. I was finally happy to get off this train. As Stephen Colbert said 'I can talk about grief, I have no problem with that, I just do not seek it' and that's why I sighed one of relief. If I lived in this fictional time which mirrored society then, I'd want to be Ivan but I fear I am Alyosha. That's not too bad. He is the protagonist, the favourite brother of most and even our narrator. He is meek and understanding, honest and righteous. That's what I think I am, allowing life happen to me like it did to him. He carried messages and observed the life of others. He eventually did something by forgiving whatever guilt Mitya might have about the escape plan by Ivan and it is hinted that he probably left that town and went on to live a quiet life. Which is fine. I think Ivan may have passed away from the brain Fever and Mitya made it to America but couldn't come back to Russia. I think the brothers went on to live... Without each other. Even though that's how their existence was in the beginning and upon Mitya's arrest, they became one body. One Karamazov. I didn't really enjoy the fluff and the details, for example 'the life of father Zosima' felt unnecessary to me. A lot of details felt unnecessary to me but I guess it is part of the experience. Katerina Ivanovna and Litzenka, with Madame Khoklakhov all represented the women of the gilded age then, so to say. They were alright in the story but that's it. Fyodor himself. I hate. Oh I hate. What a scum of a human. The defendants attorney's closing speech gave chills to my spine. No truer words. All in all, I am happy I read that. Not sure I will do it again, but definitely one for the books. H

Thank you Amoke for the gift.

I should have enjoyed it more than I did but I can't say I liked it half as much as I was supposed to. Period piece, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman... Ingredients to a perfect movie, but I just can't enjoy movies that paint women as the enemies and all that for a man. The 'Master' I did not like one bit. He was just alright imo. I forgot who was who and who was what, the blonde woman, friendly, who is she? That scene where the women were talking about their lost children, very moving. Very nice. Also, you're telling me Sabine could run as fast as a carriage and even fast enough to get in front of it and cause an accident? If you say so.

It was an alright movie, just what I needed for now.

Today, I've felt 'unusually' emotional. Unusually is the wrong word but I cant figure out a right one now. I watched a kid with downs syndrome run Ironman and cried, I watched adults who hadn't seen their mothers in years, see them for the first time and cried. I saw a boy left at graduation maybe by heavenly parents or working class parents, consoled by other graduands who already went to hug their parents and were coming back to their places. I cried a lot today. And so when it was time to pick a movie for the night, Come See Me In The Good Light was a no-brainer.

Like many movies on my to watch list, this has been there for over 6 months. I was drawn in by the voice of whom I now know to be Meg, singing 'Colours of the wind' to a dy*ng Andrea. It was the most beautiful thing I had heard at the time. It felt so raw and so true. I loved it but I could never be in the right space to watch it. Until today.

I've always raised my nose at spoken words and poetry of the 21st century. Its a bunch of familiar words strung together in a way you've never seen and spoken with a little too much vigour if you ask me. It always felt pretentious to me. If you like it, its great for you, I just cringe too much I cant sit through one. Until this movie. Andrea is such a beautiful storyteller. I decided I was going to memorize one of her poems 'Your Life' for one line and one line only 'You don’t want a soft de*th. You want a hard life that is your life'. I remember one night in Ukraine and I just burst into tears in that danky old bathroom of room 805?. It probably was already 2 years that I had become vegan or vegetarian and I just thought how hard my life was going to be if I lived it according to me. My own choices and what I liked and wanted were going to make going through life very difficult for me. I didn't want kids, I didn't care to be married, I didn't want diamond rings, I was okay with a wooden ring, I wanted to have a partner but have my own life apart from said person, I was planning a non-traditional life for myself and it was going to be hard. So hearing those lines albeit referring to a different topic (gender), I still related heavily with those words.

The documentary is so beautiful to watch and the lives of the people in it, Meg and Andrea and their friends, oh so beautiful. I envied how funny Andrea could be, even in heavy situations while not dismissing the topic at hand. She made observations on things around her, happening, and it was comedic gold. The part where she said she gets cranky after treatment and every time she needs something she goes 'At the very least get me...' and meg just understands and does what needs to be done. I thought it was pretty funny, tbf. Have I mentioned that I think Meg is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen? I don't know, something about her mouth and the way it moves when she speaks and laughs is so beautiful to me. Idk.

I'm glad I was able to experience the life of Andrea and the sneak peak into the life of Andrea and Meg, It is an honour to honour them this pride month.

Lastly, the poem I said I was going to memorize reminded me of another part of myself. I have a folder on IG saved called 'Women I'd like to be' and this poem opens up by saying ''It isn't that you don't like boys, its that you only like boys you want to be...' which I re-modelled and refashioned for myself to say 'it isn't that you don't like girls, its that you only like girls you want to be...'

I hope to be so beautiful and so creative one day and to live life fully and to appreciate this one I have so fully, before it is too late

And now the time has come to say goodbye to this time capsule of a show called Girls. What a time, that has been had. I even got kinda famous on Reddit, if you call "6k views on your post, 14 comments 4 of which are your own replies, 32 up votes and 5 downvotes on the r/girls subreddit" famous, then yeah.

The show ended twice for me, before the actual end. First it was the episode with Adam. I was livid. Seeing them back together even if it was for 24hrs. no, just no. Almost didn't continue and decided to end it there cos I could not watch that horrible man get what he wants. Even if Hannah as horrible as she is, deserves bad things. Just not him. The good people of reddit convinced me. In 10 comments or less, to finish the episode. So I did and boy was I glad I did.

Lena and the team really know how to communicate feelings, emotions and situations without words. An art that was common in the 2010's films but non existent in the 2020's. The silent cries and instant understanding between both of them, Adam calling Jessa at the end of the night, asking if she will open the door to his apartment to him after he explored with Hannah and came back empty. She smiled and I thought, eww, why? and then on the Inside the episode clip where Lena says, it is such a sad reality she has accepted, I felt that.

The second ending was the bathroom scene, right after Shoshanna's speech to the girls. Her end is so satisfying. I wish her all the happiness in the world. Showing that she has matured greatly in the absence of those vipers she called friends and cousin was beautiful. Had to watch those two episodes again, before I watched the last episode, called Latching, which just showed us that Hannah didn't change, despite the baby. Neither did Marnie.

Loreen is a surprisingly joyful character to watch. I began to appreciate her after the last scene.

Anyways, sometimes thigns end earlier than they should and thats okay. I am happy i watched this show.

Lena is certainly A Voice... i wouldnt go as far as calling her 'The voice' of a generation.

Solid 7

This season felt even more grown up. A lot of adult problems but what still remains is that these men are awful.

The season opens with Marnie in a destined to fail marriage and we know the season... Possibly the show, is going to end with Her and Ray. Boo hoo.

The episode with Charlie, really broke my heart. The only man I actually really liked on the show... According to reddit probably OD'ed from H.

I wrote some notes while watching the season... (The girls are grown up,

‎Why are these people forcing Adam down our throats? Now he's with Jesse? And Ray still has nobody? And Marnie is still with Desi? I mean she married him. And Adam is supposed to be great now? I'm sorry but the Adam propaganda is not going to work. . . Ever. Ep 4. Also, Tumblr mentioned.

‎The rapid change in the world from 2012 to 2016 was exponential

‎Ep 5... Hannah is Bi?)

A lot of new things and concepts and people were introduced in this season, We finally get to know Fran. I like him. But that ending with Hannah with the bus and the roadtrip public toilet... Men are horrible.

To expound on the point about the difference between 2012 and 2016, you can sort of feel it on the show. The phones are different, the coffee shop vibe is different, the clothes are different, the new age was also changing the language. Talking about Gawker and online blogs and tabloids.

The last episode of the season was my best, I liked Hannah's story and the peace she made with the situation between Adam and Jessa. Very compelling and I learnt a new word 'yours, in perpetuity' meaning like yours forever. Very nice. I don't know if I told you about Heretofore as a word, same as hitherto... Meaning 'Until now'

This show like they said, really finds you and I'm glad it found me now. I like the feeling of nostalgia it evokes for a time that transitioned into the internet age and where I was and what I could have been doing at that time.

I like the stories too.

Lastly... I am taking this away. To live life, you must be a villain in many people's story. Hannah I realized, reminds me of Sade, my friend. On a scale of 0-Hannah, Sade is about a little past the halfway point. What this means to me, not about my friend but the insight I'm gleaming from this is that, to really live and to have stories, you have to be a bad person in other people's stories. Not intentionally bad or wishing other people terrible. No. But to be selfish and think only of yourself. Bad enough to use people and to justify your own actions and ignore other people's feelings. Basically, don't be NICE. Only then will you truly live.

This season felt sooo different compared to the prior seasons while still remaining familiar. It still was able to provoke that emotion of 'how do these terrible men get women'. I'm talking about Adam and 'mini-rose?'. Turns out she's a girl who is just a honest version of Hannah. That TOP scene where she removes the fetus and Adam freaks out.. Loved how she handled it, hate that she took him back. But that just felt like punishing him and I now love that decision she made. Lol.

Earlier in the season, Hannah in Iowa, just felt like for the first time we were removed from their Vivarium of a world that just revolved around each character. No growth, no accountability, just a bunch of badly behaved people getting away with stuff. Hannah couldn't take criticism she tried every play in the book, none worked. Those writing students read her down! Couldn't take it, ran away. And that's when I actually noticed that the pattern for these episodes changed and Hannah was no longer Rachel Berry in glee and the world can be immune to her Bs. I realized that the episodes were no longer directed by Lena and a new person had taken over and the writing was no longer Lena and sometimes even Lena wasn't part of the writing... She was just credited for the 'creating'. Then it made sense. I liked the 'Sit in' episode for something, but I can't remember now.

Also, Hannah describing herself as a child and immature felt like a cop-out for me. Yes she's immature but her behaviours cannot be attributed to immaturity. We're talking of a 25yr old woman here. She's more of a psychiatric diagnosis than Immature.

Hannah's dad coming out as Gay and Hannah's mom cheating with another professor was interesting to watch.

I'm so happy that Marnie was proposed to and then ghosted because trust me, if Desi comes back, she's running into his arms. She deserves whatever happens to her. These characters are all terrible. And the slow intellectual polishing of Ray... Ngl, I liked it. He used very interesting words, very appropriately too. Loved that, but still can't make me like his character. Shosh being the way she is towards Ray is heartbreaking but then i still love the way she deals with it. She likes him wants him back but will not attend his gf's art show with a date and treat the date like he didn't exist, or insert herself into his space any chance she gets. She just told him once, he rejected her and she was just nice to him, even helped with his campaign. As a friend. You could tell she was still in love or really liked Ray but she didn't push it like the other Psychos. The Jessa and Adam friendship is fair to be honest. Two opportunists with each other. Fair. But ewwwww.

Who else? Nobody.

Anyways all I'm getting so far from the show is people forgive very easily and they like to be treated badly. End of story.

Really liked this season somehow

I'm not really in a good place right now, I don't feel like dissecting the show. Tbf, there is nothing really new that i want to add really. The characters hate themselves and punish themselves with each decision they make for themselves. I liked the first conversation between Jesse and the old man, he said 'You have to learn when Honesty is Righteous and when Honesty is nothing more than a party trick' I thought that was really nice.

This season very much gave grown up vibe. It was alright. I really enjoyed the Beach house episode the most and Marnie is a BEEEETCH. Hannah too.