With a title like this, of course the first question we’re asking ourselves is “who is the monster in the movie?” In the first thirty minutes, the answer already appears to be clear. From the perspective of a caring and hardworking single mother, the reason for her son’s sudden erratic behavior must stem from an external source, so when Minato places all the blame on his teacher, Saori’s quick to believe him and take action. Upon repeat confrontations, the faculty’s…
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Yi Yi 2000
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For the longest time, I thought the title of the movie was 意義 (yìyì: meaning/significance) instead of 一一 (yīyī: one by one), but I suppose we’re all looking for 意義 in Yi Yi.
Yi Yi is a very slow, measured movie with a runtime of 3 hours, yet I was surprisingly engrossed the entire time because it felt so raw and real. Each member of the family, though at completely different stages of their lives, is struggling to find purpose…
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A City of Sadness 1989
Thinking about how an Uber driver asked my friend if she’s seen the movie based in Jiufen (as in this one) and she enthusiastically replied “yeah the animated Ghibli movie?” and he just looked at her like 🫥
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Past Lives 2023
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I love the way Past Lives is broken up into 3 stages of Nora’s identity: from Korean to Korean-Canadian to Korean-Canadian-American. In the middle, at 24 years old, she’s spent exactly half of her life in Korea as Moon Na Young and half outside of it as Nora Moon. By this point, she’s no longer as comfortable in her native language as she is in English and her childhood days feel far off, until a chance reconnection with Hae Sung…
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