Still the Water by Naomi Kawase
It is in the quiet, aching exploration of loneliness and love that Still the Water will linger in the heart, not because of dramatic twists in plot. With the serene island of Amami-Oshima setting the scene for this story to unravel like some gentle tide into the inner world of two teens wrestling with the puzzles of their inner lives and with the world, Kaito and Kyoko. Fundamentally, yearning for connection, contrasting with loneliness…
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I got a chance to watch this movie at the festival years ago, and till this day still one of my favorite coming of age movie, Kim Bora writing a poetry for this one.
Kim Bora’s House of Hummingbird beautifully portrayed emotion and inner conflict of the main character, Eun-hee. Kim Bora paints a deeply empathetic portrait of Eun-hee's feelings-sketching the subtleties of quiet desperation and hope in an often indifferent world.
She has to pass through family confusion, a…
A reflection of Youth, Identity, Love and Social Fights
Edward Yang A Brighter Summer Day is an emotional bunch of deep thinking about youth and identity.
The title of the movie A Brighter Summer Day is in an unexpected yet interesting way, where something happened that's the opposite of what is expected, because it compares the hopefulness of youth with a darker, terrible reality that the characters face.
Xiao Si'r coming-of-age trip unfolds against the background of Taiwan shifting political and social…
