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Favorite films

  • The Country Girl
  • The Red Detachment of Women
  • Top Hat
  • Candyman

All
  • The Descendant Of Wing Chun

    ★★★

  • They Shall Take Up Serpents

    ★★★★★

  • The People Who Take Up Serpents

    ★★★★★

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    ★★★★★

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The Descendant Of Wing Chun

1978

★★★ Watched

Kung Fu choreography from the 70s often feels more like theatre than fighting, which I'm sure is unsurprising to anyone who's had to sit through the probably hundreds of Letterboxd reviews that belabor the connection between early martial arts films and Chinese opera schools at the time, leading quite naturally to a style of fight choreography that emphasizes the aesthetics of various styles, rather than how they would actually look in a real tussle. I once, in college, I…

The People Who Take Up Serpents

1974

★★★★★ Watched

"The Wisdom of God is foolishness to the world."

Here's where you can watch this:
www.folkstreams.net/films/people-who-take-up-serpents

And here's a list of some of the symptoms that you will have if bitten by a rattlesnake, starting immediately after envenomation:

1. Severe pain and soft tissue damage around the bite site
2. Tissue digestion and increased vascular permeability
3. Oedema (severe swelling in legs and feet, caused by rattlesnake venom eating at blood vessels and causing blood and fluid to leak into…

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Hell House

2001

★★★½ 2

The guy in the Fear Factory t-shirt ardently defending gay people while also using the f slur is maybe the most early-2000s thing I've ever seen.

Elfen Lied

2004

½ 11

I didn't watch this again, but I only just found out that this is on Letterboxd, so I gotta review it to tell about the time I was in college and a woman I barely even knew invited me to her house to watch TV (maybe she thought it was a first date, I really don't know) and what she put on to show someone who was almost a complete stranger to her was freakin Elfen Lied. I respect the audacity, but I was so disgusted by what I saw that I left after one episode and never spoke to her again.