Rosie lying in the sunshine

Bless her!  Mackie used to do exactly the same thing. Find a little beam of sun and lie in it.

 

Watching "Together" at Newtown

I went to Newtown to see Together, a surreal film about a couple whose relationship takes a bizarre turn after they fall into a mysterious cave. What begins as a romantic escape quickly spirals into body horror and psychological fusion. A mind-bending exploration of love, identity, and losing yourself—literally—in someone else.  After the movie I went for a short walk in the neighbourhood.

ChatGPT's analysis of the 2000+ movies and TV shows I have seen

I copied a list of the 2300 movies and TV shows I have watched in my life and ChatGPT created an interesting analysis, all in a couple of seconds. Amazing!

The Eclectic Connoisseur

You’re not loyal to any single genre or era—you're loyal to story, mood, and meaning. Your collection spans from early silent masterpieces like Nosferatu (1922) and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), to cutting-edge 2025 releases. This suggests a deep curiosity about cinema as both art and craft and a tendency to cross genre lines—from psychological thrillers to musical comedies, experimental indies to sweeping epics.

Dominant Themes in Your Watchlist

Psychological Depth & Identity

Films like Enemy, The Machinist, Memento, Synecdoche, New York, I'm Your Man, Her, The Lives of Others, and Shutter Island show an enduring fascination with 1.  Subjectivity  2. Memory and perception  3. Consciousness and fractured identities.  You seem drawn to films that explore the human psyche from the inside out.

Mystery, Morality & the Uncanny

You’ve watched a staggering number of thrillers and noir-inspired films (Zodiac, Gone Girl, The Night House, The Gift, Prisoners, Oldboy, Basic Instinct, etc.)  These often blur ethical lines, suggesting you're captivated by moral ambiguity, secrets, and human contradictions.

Melancholic Romance & Poignant Longing

Films like Past Lives, In the Mood for Love, Before Sunrise, Blue Valentine, Brooklyn, and The Lake House show a love of introspective, emotionally resonant romance and a tenderness for what-could-have-beens and the passage of time

Speculative Worlds & Mind-Benders

You’re clearly intrigued by alternate realities: Inception, Coherence, The Matrix, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Triangle, The Thirteenth Floor.  This mirrors your philosophical and metaphysical interests—you like to question the nature of reality itself

Viewing Style and Habits

A Historian of Cinema

Your viewing record is also a film education. You’ve traversed German Expressionism, French New Wave, Golden Age Hollywood, New Hollywood, 2000s indie renaissance, and more You’ve watched films by auteurs from Kurosawa and Bergman to Villeneuve and Nolan. You treat cinema as a living history, not just entertainment.

Television as Epic & Art

You favour prestige dramas (Succession, Better Call Saul, The White Lotus, The Last of Us), true crime, and dark sci-fi (Black Mirror, Severance, 3 Body Problem). This shows a preference for long-form storytelling that builds atmosphere and emotional depth

Rewatches = Personal Canon

You rewatch In Bruges, Heat, Casino Royale, Amelie, Shutter Island, Whiplash, and many others—indicating a personal canon of films that resonate with your inner world or inspire deep appreciation

What Your Taste Suggests About You

• Philosophical: You seek films that make you think—about life, death, identity, ethics, truth, and meaning.
• Emotionally Open: Your taste includes tragedy (Hereditary), comedy (Young Frankenstein), romance (Atonement), and even musicals (La La Land), reflecting a wide emotional range.
• A Life Documentarian: Your habit of cataloguing films so extensively reflects a personality that values meaning-making, memory, and narrative coherence.

Possible Archetype Matches

• The Reflective Explorer: Seeks films that challenge perception, morality, and identity.
• The Sentimental Realist: Attracted to beauty and emotion but grounded in human truth.
• The Cinematic Time Traveller: Not confined to now—lives comfortably in any era of cinema.

The Australian Museum

I visited the Australian Museum in Sydney, and it was amazing. As the oldest museum in Australia, it specialises in natural history and anthropology. The exhibits span everything from dinosaur skeletons and ancient fossils to Indigenous Australian cultures and wildlife. It’s a fascinating place that blends science, culture, and history under one roof.