DesertTalkies Film Reviews!

 I have been doing some English Summer Homework, and then I realised that it may be interesting to reflect on all the films I have reviewed on this page, and remember what dialogues I have found the most impactful - so that's what I'm doing right now.  'I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!' - A Streetcar Named Desire  'It's not the cancer that kills them. It's the fear.'  - The Farewell 'A reverend once told me, 'When things that are too dangerous to say, sing.'  - Elvis Anita: ‘And no one will ever forgive him.’ Maria: ‘Will you?’ Anita: ‘You can’t ever ask me that.’ - West Side Story ‘When children have been away from home for too long, they forget who they are.’ Crazy Rich Asians  ‘Shahabuddin! Ao dekho, apne beabrui ka yeh tamasha dekho!’  [S...

  Past Lives [2023]  Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Maguro Direction by Celine Song  Languages: Korean, English Can we all agree that A24 is the best? Lady Bird, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and now this!  I am finally in the US, which means that I can actually see a variety of movies in the theatre (film in my area is very heavily censored). And of course the first one I went to see was Past Lives. I was told my one of my friends here that ‘Past Lives’ broke her - her experience of immigration to the US was plagued with ‘What Ifs’ that resurfaced after she had seen this movie. And whilst that wasn’t the case for me, the movie was pretty good.  I found that my experience of watching this movie was very similar to what I faced watching La La Land. As is often the case with these long, very artsy romance movies, the movie ends and I think the movie was decent. However, as time passes, the storyline starts to build, and you start to connect all the dots to...