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I was tagged by @anoiseofgloriousdisdain to list my seven comfort movies. I’m actually going to use this as an excuse to practice my gif skills and make a gifset for each! Will do after I finish up the last of my TRC prompts (rip).

All of these movies I’ve seen at least three times! They’re definitely films that I put on when I’m sad and need a pick-me-up, and they make me feel all warm again. But full disclosure, some of them are actually super intense and morally fucked -- not all happy feel-good movies.

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Not necessarily in order:

1. Kill Your Darlings, John Krokidas 2013

The portrayal of the events that inspired Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs’ And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, when Allen Ginsberg attended Columbia and helped found The Beat Generation with Lucien Carr, who gets caught up in a nasty act of murder and homophobia.

A comfort film for me because the direction is exactly my aesthetic to a T. It’s the right colors, the right pacing, the right characters (fucked up queers making bad life choices!), the right time period, the right music, the right editing -- it’s just the exact kind of art I’d like to make, only I’d like to make it with less white men.

2. Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan 2019

A French-Canadian film by my absolute darling Xavier Dolan who once again is a one-man show, writing, directing, producing, editing, and starring in this film. Lifelong friends Matt and Max share a kiss for a student film, and it unravels their relationship as they grapple with what they mean to each other.

Okay this film got panned but I love it. There’s such a dichotomy between ultra-realism, with this gang of friends all just talking over each other and actors fucking up their lines and stuff like that, and high art with these intense long shots of the landscape and dramatic music playing. It’s also one of those films where you cannot tell if it’s going to end happy or sad and I love the tension.

3. Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright 2005

I mean. I assume everyone knows this movie. Rich brooding man falls for smart independent woman. Everyone is beautiful and haughty.

The score. The colors. The fact that everyone is beautiful and haughty. It’s funny, it’s vibrant and real, it makes me feel warm.

4. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, specifically Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man’s Chest

Everyone knows PotC. Swaggering pirate meets long-dead pirate’s long-lost son, who is in love with smart independent woman.

The high seas. The romance. Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me. The ships clashing. The you best start believin’ in ghost stories Miss Turner. The skeleton pirates and their underwater march. Will Turner seizing his destiny. Johnny Depp is admittedly very good in the role and Orlando Bloom walks around with heart eyes and Keira Knightly does that thing with her mouth while wearing low-cut corsets. What’s not to love.

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry 2004

I’m actually not going to go into plot because this is one of those films that I believe should be watched blindly the first time, and then with rapt attention the second time. Essentially, Joel chooses to undergo an experimental treatment to erase the memories of his ex-girlfriend Clementine. It’s a love story.

The love story is achingly beautiful, and the characters are achingly real. So flawed! They have so many flaws! They have more flaws than virtues! And yet you’re rooting for them so badly. It gives me a lot of hope and maybe that’s why it’s become a comfort film.

6. The Social Network, David Fincher 2010

Mark Zuckerberg gets a new boyfriend and Eduardo Saverin sues him for damages to a broken heart.

I was obsessed with this movie when it came out and I have most of it memorized and honestly I just think that alone is why it’s such a comfort film - it’s just familiar and homey at this point. But Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg give amazing performances in all honesty, and the script is, dare I say, flawless.

7. The Harry Potter franchise, specifically Order of the Phoenix if I had to choose

I mean. If we’re talking comfort movies. Watching a HP movie is always going to feel like coming home <3

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