My Sep 2023 in numbers

Classic f&f – Second best only to the original 2001 f&f.

I found out about this on an IG movies page – I like how it is random yet full of art. The film seems to bear no hidden msgs, but is an enjoyable watch nevertheless.

I would rank this as number 2 on this list – This is probably the 2nd or 3rd one I ever watch for Nicolas Cage – I watched “Face-off” years ago, but this one also includes references to some of his old works, and I find it amusing that he plays the character with his real name.

A quick google search tells me this was one of his best since so long.

My first time to watch The Matrix – I should’ve probably seen that 10 years earlier.

GPT recommended that after I told it I liked Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Didn’t fail though.

After watching Oppenheimer, and omw out of the cinema, a friend said he would rank it Nolan’s 3rd best after Interstellar & Inception.

Next day I watched a small documentary about why Nolan is obsessed with time, and that it forms the theme behind almost all of his movies – So I went over how much of Nolan’s works I have seen up to this point & I found I only watched:

• Interstellar
• The Prestige
• Batman Trilogy

So I watched Inception and frankly I was glad I didn’t feel lost in the abyss while watching it, like many of his films, I would normally feel I need to watch them for a 2nd or 3rd time before getting it. I didn’t feel this with Inception, I feel the concepts tied together and I was pretty much following up with the pace throughout the 3 different dream levels.

And then I returned back to this image I saved from earlier, because I was waiting to open this only when I’ve watched it:

This explains the intro & outro of each dream level – And puts context to the depth of each.

It reflects lots of intellect & picks up his brain while he was doing it.

Next on my Nolan list:

• Dunkrik
• Tenet
• Memento

I’m ridiculously obsessed with The Tesseract concept from Interstellar – And it happens to be that most of these movies align with this theme, more or less.

The only good thing about this is it’s by Michael Caine. It’s supposed to be a long-life reflection by two old men who have been friends for 30 years, but l find it disturbing.

I watched this while binge-eating, mostly. While watching it you seem like you keep waiting for something that just won’t happen – Slow and boring.

I watched this after being intrigued by the original Matrix.

I find it so exciting the fact that I watched The Matrix after Inception – With the majority of events during both happen when a bunch of people are connected to a device that transports them to alter realities 😂

However, this sequel was not as good as the original Matrix.

The three of them, however, puts in context the notion that we may or may not be part of a well-designed simulation (?)

Number 1 on this list – My 2nd time watching it.

I wouldn’t say I rank it first on the list because it’s perfect, but because it made me think.

It touches upon different concepts between love, mortality, trust, & destiny.

Story & narration are so on-point, and it is easily the kind of film that you will either love so much or hate so much.