A Brief Introduction

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. Imagination, applied to what is absent, is exercised in a vacuum and cannot tolerate the limits of the real
—Samuel Beckett

I'd like to talk to this audience, cos this audience has been curiously hostile to me. Are you really all truly idiots or is it me?
—Norman Mailer

I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself
—Pablo Picasso

Welcome to the dark corner of the Earth. I'm Gordon Blake and these are the lists of my favorite movies of each year. Where's the 19xx year? you might ask. Where's the 20xx? As of today, I've completed my journey through the ...—1923 years. You should exercise a great deal of precaution if encountering any list not belonging to the mentioned time period: it's probably a placeholder.

It's not really a biggie in a grand scheme of things, just sitting there, observing frames change 24 times per second. What the hell, I just might be the best watcher there is. But there's a difference between seeing things and "seeing things". So, do I "see things"? I watch things. I look into things. I observe. See Saw, Have Seen. Have Been Seen To Have Seeing Things. From the safest distance possible, mind you. We're not here to get affected, are we.

When we critique movies, we often resort to the superficial method of evaluating them with a number, which can severely impair one's appreciation for cinema. Our memories diligently sort and file away anything that doesn't meet our arbitrary criteria, consigning those "lesser" movies to the dark recesses of our minds until they are forgotten entirely. I don't want this to happen to my besties. I had strings, but now I'm free. Shoutout to Dan Sallitt for the idea of a color coded rating system, which I may or may not understand myself, but I'm using it anyways throughout my lists. Each color represents how much I liked the film, and has the folowing progression, from highest to lowest:

Crimson
Orange
Lime Green
Royal Blue
Fuchsia
Charcoal Gray

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