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5 Films About Jealousy (opens the original)
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Jealousy has terrible PR.We tend to imagine jealousy like this ugly little emotion we should have grown out of somewhere around secondary school. Someone you know gets the perfect job, the ‘perfect partner’, he has the talent and so many things you wanted, and you’re supposed to smile politely and feel happy for them like a well-adjusted adult.Jealousy is interesting to me because it’s rarely just about wanting what another person has. Their existence starts poking at something inside you. They’
PLOT IS OVERRATED (opens the original)
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5 Great Films About Loneliness (opens the original)
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LETTERBOXD IS CHANGING HOW WE WATCH FILMS (opens the original)
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Letterboxd has made some of us worse at watching films.Me included.That sounds ridiculous because I do love Letterboxd. I love seeing what people are watching, clicking on an actor and somehow ending up three directors away with another twelve films added to a watchlist I’ll never finish. I like looking back at what I watched years ago and discovering that apparently I once thought some forgettable Netflix
5 Films About Starting Over (opens the original)
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We love the idea of starting over. A new city, a new job, a new relationship. Maybe a new haircut if things have really gone to shit. There’s comforting about imagining a clean line between the person you were yesterday and whoever you’re going to become next.Real life is slightly less cooperative though. You bring stuff with you. The bad habits, the people you miss, the mistakes you thought you’d moved past, the version of yourself that still wants the old life back. You can move 8k kilometres
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