And just as all seemed lost, I found Letterboxd.
In its FAQ, Letterboxd bills itself as “a global social network for grass-roots film discussion and discovery. Use it as a diary to record and share your opinion about films as you watch them, or just to keep track of films you’ve seen in the past.” But its real omnipurpose shows up a little later: “How should I use Letterboxd?” the site asks; “However you like,” the site answers. What I like is keeping to myself and doing my own thing. And more often than not, Letterboxd allows me to be introverted on a social media app.
I’m not using it to see what other people do — I’m using it the way I did the opening pages of my journal, before I stopped keeping one. For years, I hand-wrote entries about my life, what I got up to, whom I went out with, what movies I was seeing, what I was reading, what inspired me, what drove me insane. At the start of my journals, I’d keep a running log of what movies and books I watched and wrote about. I’d begun to write a
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