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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2022.01.23

My son had to sit an English-language exam today, so I packed him up and we went to Kichijoji. I spent three hours waiting on him, so decided to add a special page to this website that acts as an index to the many (well over 700+!) movie reviews in my journal. I realized with this New Year's that it's now been twenty-five years, and that I've been writing movie reviews for half my life. Terse, irritable movie reviews.

rand()m quote

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

—Anne Frank