Film & What it Means to Me

In the Mood for Love, directed by Wong-Kar Wai, is a movie from the 2000s that evokes a timeless feel. It takes place in 1960s Hong Kong, and follows two people, a man and a woman, as they grow closer after realising that their respective spouses are cheating on them with each other. There is no sexual acts depicted, but this movie doesn't need them. The fiery passion and love the two experience is visualised in other ways, like a hand reaching for another in the backseat of a dimly lit taxi cab.

Inception is the first Film I ever watched. It was the first one to make me think, truly, in every sense of the word. I watched it when I was fairly young, so I didn't get to appreciate it for what it's worth until much later, but it remains as one of my top 10 movies of All Time. The movie is centered around the idea that there are people who can infiltrate our dreams in order to get into our subconscious, one of these being Dominic Cobb, a man who is contracted by different companies to infiltrate the minds of the competitors, stealing trade secrets from his marks. He is approached by one of these competitors and asked to perform "Inception", the term for planting an idea in the subconscious, so he can convince a competitor's son to dissolve the company. Cobb takes the job and begins to assemble a crew that he will act with. The movie takes lots of inspiration from Satoshi Kon's "Paprika", and they are both incredible movies.

Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronosky, released in 2010. This is a movie I frequently rewatch and every time I watch it, I fall deeper in love with it. I first caught glimpses of this movie when I was young and a certain scene (hangnail scene) traumatised me and put a wall between me and this movie for years. Eventually, as I got more and more invested in horror movies, I watched the movie in full. Black Swan is the story of a ballet dancer, Nina, who becomes obsessed with reaching perfection when she is given the role of the Swan Queen in her company's new production of Swan Lake. As she grows into the role of Odile, the evil black swan, her inner Odette begins to fade, and her transformation is dramatic and, even worse, deadly.