It’s a divisive film for sure, but one that operates exactly on my wavelength. This one is for the sickos and will likely inspire rigorous debates for years to come.

@oldfilmsflicker on Babylon and why it doesn’t hit for some, but when it hits, hoo boy does it hit

‘The moment I realized that I wouldn’t be able to work anymore in Iran, after those things happened, my only motivation to continue living was cinema,’ she said. ‘I would have died if I stopped working in cinema.’

Enlightenment is understanding that you don’t exist as an individual. A universal consciousness, maybe, if you want— But you don’t exist as a petite body-mind with free will and choice, and independence. You are not that small thing. You’re God. I am God. We are the same. I don’t believe anymore in the self, or that we have a self. I think there’s a body-mind, which is like a puppet, a rubber. I completely lost the sense of self.