Staircase Wit

The story is so beautiful and it made me cry buckets, yes yes okay. But what I loved the most is how this film transported me back to Tokyo! The locations just feel so familiar, and this film makes me ache to go back there. This film shows Tokyo so vividly! The busy train stations, the coffee vending machines, the city skyline, the architecture, the restaurants and cafés where you can just sit by yourself and enjoy your meal alone. This film even captures the eerily quiet and peaceful experience of riding a crowded Japanese train. I miss Tokyo so badly it's almost heartbreaking.

Thoughts after watching Hamilton on Disney+ three times: 1. Hamilton is an exciting and kinetic frenzy of a musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of American's Founding Fathers. It's a history lesson (but many liberties were taken of course), but sang in rap, hip-hop, pop, and R&B. 2. I have been obsessed with Hamilton since 2016. I have repeated the Original Broadway Cast Recording on Spotify probably a million times. Even if I can practically sing along to every line to every song in the musical, I was still awed and floored by the film. 3. There are so many witty details in the film; details that are so understated you will only see them on your second or third viewing. 4. Where else, in the history of pop culture, would you see two cabinet secretaries debate against each other in the form of a rap battle? 5. I have never seen a more talented ensemble of actors. They sing, dance, and rap. Their facial expressions add even more flavor to the already great musi