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Favorite short from DIFF ‘24. Had all the potential to be a marvelous, tight feature!
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Tokyo Story 1953
“Lars Svendsen’s central claim in his book ‘The Philosophy of Boredom’ is that modernity has brought with it a characteristic type of boredom that he dubs existential boredom. Central to the film's narrative is the portrayal of this sort of boredom, not in its conventional sense of mere idleness or lack of activity, but in the profound sense of ennui that comes from unfulfilled expectations, unspoken desires, and the gradual realization of life's impermanence. The Hirayama couple's journey to Tokyo,…
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