Ashley

"My final movie is starting..." WAS CRAZY  somehow a japanese western makes sense ??? it was really interesting and i liked the whole concept of this. subject matters also discussed besides food and appreciation and enjoyment of it was romance and intimacy. which were portrayed with food as well. relationships with food. super interesting and i loved it. i'm also obsessed with the awkward comedy incorporated into this,  this felt like a testament to say that anyone can enjoy food regardless of status and that anyone can learn to appreciate it. food is also meant to be enjoyed and devoured. this one hit close to come because a lot of what they were talking about resonated with me since my dad is literally the same. he's a big foodie and cook and loves talking about how to make new recipes or where the food comes from. the characters in this were so knowledgeable about food and i loved listening to the things they had to say. it was all very wholesome. i learnt a lot more about food and ramen through it. their love and excitement about food is so contagious. plus, i just came back from tokyo this made me miss the food in japan already.  not sure how i feel about there being two big stories seemingly happening at once, it feels like it's good because there is variety but at the same time, it can be confusing. it sort of came together in the end anyways so. i loved the journey of tampopo ramen it was fun to watch how they discovered new things along the way. every character is likeable too, especially sensei's gang that ate off the streets, they were so caring (and smart). there is truly something so romantic about this and food is love after all and honestly i love love love that ending because it sums up everything by saying that's our first food and first taste of something and that is mothers milk. something is so beautiful about this. overall just such a beautiful wonderful and well rounded film i love this so much but like shivers by david cronenberg coins, everything is erotic! so sensual and sexual and food is intimacy. food is love in every sense of the word.

"I meet you. I remember you. This city was tailor-made for love. You fit my body like a glove. Who are you? You're destroying me. You're good for me... Devour me. Deform me to your likeness so that no one after you will ever again understand the reason for so much desire." (single best monologue i have ever heard in a while AND im going to kill myself) this film is 2 things to me, yearning and intimacy and it truly is the embodiment of those elements, for me. there is so much to unpack yet i'm at a loss for words. this whole film is essentially that juxtaposition. i love the whole first bit about her saying hiroshima was in shambles and how he kept denying it but she said she saw everything, and he says that she saw nothing. then she continues to say that she wouldn't have expected to find such love in a place full of destruction and pain. i loved that so much.  "And then one day my love, your eternity comes to an end." is the most precise perfect line to describe the juxtaposition of this.  driven solely by dialogue and cinematography, the intimacy and beauty can be felt through the screen. someone to hold and feel and understand. sometimes it gets too much. there are so many feelings encased in this masterpiece and i can't begin to explain them all.  the cinematography is so breathtaking and beautiful. the archive footage and vignettes of the past, all add so much to the remembrance element of this. the memories and the bittersweet times of her past too. it started and ended with the memories she had.  there is fear and isolation weaved into this as she talks about a life without him, her previous lover during the war.  "I see my life, your death. My life that goes on, your death that goes on." the cellar seems like a metaphor for her isolation and loneliness which she can't seem to get out of.  loving someone is to know them intimately. it is getting to know someone but also knowing that your time is going to be up very soon. an expiration date on this love, and it hurts. so many mixed feelings but in the end, all good things come to an end, so heartbreaking and beautiful to have witnessed this progression. and their emotional connection will never be forgotten. i was going to say he was like hiroshima to her then that ending came along and i was gagged oh my god

"No, your mother... is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He's merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river... With the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and... findin' nothin' that he wants to do. I mean nothing." been almost a year since this movie changed my life, i still feel like smashing my head into a wall when i watch this. it's never over. matt dillon god i love him so much no man has ever looked as good as he did in this and the outsiders.  i find new meaning to this every time i watch it and i can't really shake the feeling of how this makes me feel. the feeling of family and belonging and brotherhood and growing up. it just seems so much real to me now that i know i am growing up and it actually hurts because we do have time but then now i'm scared of wasting that time. "I just want you to see me when you look at me." "You know I wish I was the big brother you always wanted."

"I don't care who you are. You're my son. You'll always be my son. Whoever you are." something i'll always think about from now on... this is unlike anything i've ever watched but this is everything you could ever want in a film. thrill, cars, sex, gore, family and tragedy a hint of comedy. and this was also really giving Denis Villeneuve. so visually stunning. i didn't like Raw but i loved this. Raw was alright but it wasn't as good as i expected. this, however, was on a different level altogether. it was seriously amazing. and weirdly heart warming. it was oddly humane and very human despite the cars and mechanical parts and aspects of this film. this juxtaposition is insane and im in awe of how this film managed to come to be. painful and gruesome, the "gore" included in this could be (in my opinion) compared to that of Nymphomaniac's / The Tribe's abortion scene. i always use them as comparison cause those were the films i actually had to look away or skip for those particular scenes. i felt the same while watching this as i had when watching those. i definitely did have to look away once or twice, it felt as if i could literally feel the pain depicted in the film. which is pretty impressive acting. Agathe Rousselle is truly phenomenal.   comedy because that one scene with the firefighters in the purple lit room was kind of funny. the song choice, the movements, the slomo. also, the music score was really great i liked it a lot. need a rewatch or a few more days to think about this to talk about it deeper.  never would i have thought i'd see CPR and the macarena being done and sung together.. and NOT GONNA LIE I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE MOTORCYCLE HELMET OR SOMETHING... i'm dying to see how it looks like