Really Love Dynamics That Are Like 'it Honestly Doesn't Matter If You View Them As Romantic Or Platonic,

Frasier (1993-2004) / Hannibal (2013-2015)

*a male and female character have a nice close platonic relationship that doesn't indicate any romance at all*

Me: Oh I am HERE for this!

*whoops, they fell in love*

Me: I'll be on my way.

HUNGER (2023) dir. Sitisiri Mongkolsiri

Just finished watching Sweet Home. Overall I enjoyed the series but was kinda disappointed we didn't get more information about certain characters like the priest. I was left a little confused about how the priest and Seon hwa knew each other. To be honest, I thought there was going to be more to those two characters but I guess not lmao. I will definitely start reading the webtoon when I have time as I'm sure it will answer some of the questions I still have.

Baby Reindeer is a masterpiece. Anyone who can handle the content should watch it. These stories need to be told.

The Shining (1980) Hannibal (2013-2015)

Hannibal s1e7 "Sorbet" | s2e7 "Yakimono"

BABY REINDEER (2024) Episode 6.

Roma (2018), dir. by Alfonso Cuarón

Whiplash (2014) is a good film. I like what is has to say about Jazz and how it's a conversation within the band members themselves, about what it means to them and how they take the pieces they play and meld it to their hands. I like that Whiplash wants to deconstruct the harshness and the perfectionism of most high-class directors and coaches. I like that it shits on and then spreads on how seriously harmful it is to the musician's psyche.

Whiplash is named whiplash because of the turns taken both by the director and the drummer. On how sudden and fast their dynamic turns sour and then blooms. It's the whiplash of learning. It's the whiplash of a piece being too fast. It's the whiplash of a piece being turned slow. It's the vertigo of motion and the motions of riffs. And the motions of emotions of riffs.

I like Whiplash because it introduces the intimacy between two people being so passionate about their craft, one too stuck and intimidating and the other too loose and full of novelty. How they change because of one another. The emotional duress and investment into each other. Is it erotic? In a way that could only be brought about by the erotism of vulnerability. The camera work does most of that conversation, conversing with it's audience without blinking. With cuts from scene to beautiful scene, showing us vulnerability.

The whiplash of the assault of their senses of each other. It's wonderful. It's deviating. It is introspective. It fucks with its vulnerability. It makes the audience feel the characters audacity for tearing and building these vails.

The failed dating, the awkward family dinner, the throwing away of neilman's passions, the peaking at a man who's career shouldn't have gone so long in predigest settings, the envelopment of class and the negging of peers.

The movie is bad. The movie is good. The movie is simply driven by it's showing rather than telling. Yet, it feels stiff at time whenever there's a lull in music. It's on purpose, it isn't.

Whiplash (2014) is a nice movie. I love how it sounds.