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Lost in Starlight

Director: Han Ji-won
Screenplay by: Kang Hyun-joo, Han Ji-won
Starring: Kim Tae-ri, Hong Kyung
Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Animated
Release: 2025
Date Watched: Oct 2025
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This movie was fun to watch! I intially put it on because I thought it was dubbed, and I wanted something I could look away from while knitting. By the time I realized the film was, in fact, mostly subbed, I was too engrossed to care about my needles. The animation is stunning- colorful, busy scenes of the not-so-distant future parallel themes of eco-capitalism, CyberPunk's lesser known little sister. The writing keeps up with the quality of animation, a respite from that familiar failing in our current media climate. Though the central figures' relationship may fall into some romantic cliches, the textured plot which entrenches them keeps their story interesting and adds depth to their characterization. And who doesn't like a romance that's a little smooth around the edges every now and then, anyways?



I Saw the TV Glow

Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Writer: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Justice Smith, Jack Haven
Genre: Horror / Trans
Release: 2024
Date Watched: Oct 2025
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This movie is inarguably masterful, though I cannot say I enjoyed it. It is a captivating film which grips you from start to finish- slow, even pacing builds a misery and suspence which refuses to relieve itself even in its final moments. Consequently, watching this movie felt like a punishment. For trans viewers like myself, it likely unearths the ice-cold grip of an isolation formed in childhood, the isolation from oneself, and reminds us the fate of those who can't or won't grow bigger than such prisons. For viewers unaccostemed to trans experience, this film may fall flat as a thriller. For those inbetween, it may strike a chord that demands to be explored, or deepen sympathies for a life they haven't lived. None of this matters, however, for this work seems not to have been created with a viewer in mind, but out of the writer's sacred and unadultered need to understand their own feelings by way of organzing them into coherent art. It deserves some sort of award, and I will never watch it again.