rewatched this because of that godforsaken edit to Hozier and it was just as beautiful as the day I last saw it (it's been a decade)
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Past Lives 2023
movement, memory, and space
parallel and diametrically opposed, there is so much richness in this movie that can be unpacked. more than a glimpse of contrast and comparison to what it means to be asian and asian american; one can recognize how the effects of diasporic movement can indefinitely alter memory, identity, and perspective.
making decisions is scary because we’re trying to predict what each choice today means for future choices tomorrow; and yet, we can never know what lies…
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Minari 2020
Fortitude - one word, three syllables: an imposed designation to the immigrant conditionality.
In the context of precarious intergenerational fragmentation, the memory of home(land), despite being filtered by time and space still presents itself as a testament to the preservation of love.
If trauma exists on a different temporal dimension, then the ghosts of the past (and even the ghosts of the living) exist as karmic guides to the bodies they haunt in the present.
Nevertheless, surviving is a creative…
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