standardanaemia

life giver

I think this website sucks. I think it encourages a type of engagement with film, media and art in general that’s dumb, self-absorbed and narrow-minded rather than opening you up to something. I don’t like that it frames watching film as something to be seen doing, to be competitive about and as another consumer product to develop a superficial idea of taste on as if it’s meaningful in relationships. I don’t like that it tracks with the general trend of media consumption that you need to enter into any subject with perfectly formed taste. I also don’t like that people seem to spend their critical energies reducing a film to a number during and after watching a film, against other numbers in your network, and that these numbers ultimately become data for a trend of flattening and rendering the entire world as vectors. I think it’s also poor quality posting – making simple ironic pun seems to be what makes a good review over there. The end of the golden age of posting – the end of the promise of Web 2.0 and the death of Twitter — brought down the quality of posting everywhere and Letterboxd is a symptom of that. I have an account just to log what I watch but I don’t follow any of my friends on there. If I want to know what they thought I talk to them.

film is a beautiful collection of moving images not a collection of beautiful moving images

goes overboard sometimes

the best. maybe the reason we talk.

he really messed east asians up man

it’s good wood

good signal

really wonderful