2025 Favorite Films
I walked through 2025 like a house of mirrors, each film reflecting a part of me I wasn’t ready to see: grief, ambition, love, exhaustion, and the questions I still carry.
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The Storyteller Who Taught Me to Look Inward: Spielberg – Part 2
If the first half of Spielberg’s career was about awe – dinosaurs, aliens, adventure, the wide‑eyed gaze of children – the second half is about reckoning. He doesn’t abandon spectacle, but he complicates it.
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The Heart of a Wonderful Life
A yearly return to a film that reveals how deeply we matter to one another, and how every gesture of kindness becomes part of the legacy we leave behind.
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When Meaning Slips: How Father Mirrors Our Lives
Father isn’t just a film; it’s a mirror held up to the pace that’s breaking all of us, a reminder of how fragile our minds become when life never lets us breathe.
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The Storyteller Who Taught Me to Look Up: Spielberg – Part 1
Beneath the spectacle of his films, Spielberg always comes back to the same personal themes: fractured families, absent fathers, and children searching for connection. Whether it’s aliens, dinosaurs, or war, he finds a way to make it about people trying to hold on to each other.
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Song Sung Blue: Music as Solace, Music as Fire
In Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman sheds the superhero mask to embrace music as sanctuary and fire. It is a film that reminds us why music carry our joy, our grief, and our faith in one another.
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The Agony of Hamnet, The Agony of Memory
Hamnet shattered me, and left me wrestling with death, grief, and the impossible questions of how we live after losing those we love.
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Sentimental Value: The House That Remembers Us
Success glitters, but what fragments of love and memory are we scattering in its wake? When the pursuit ends, will our houses remember presence, or absence?
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Eternity is a Question, Not an Answer
A film that left me laughing, crying, and quietly unraveling the difference between love, memory, and what we choose to hold forever – without offering a simple answer.
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One in 100 Million, 8,000 Layers of Inyeon: Love and Time in Past Lives and 6 Days
Two films, worlds apart, yet bound by fate, silence, and impossible odds. In Past Lives and 6 Days, I found not just stories, but mirrors of my own journey.
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