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The Breaking Ice 2023
So beautifully shot.
A love triangle full of longing that takes a backseat to the individual stories of 3 young people devastatingly lost in their search for meaning in life. Too many unspokens to even begin to voice.
Maybe I’m speaking out of turn here, but the aching, tentative, indecisive tensions explored in this film strike me as a brutally honest, and culturally on point character portrait of the young in 中國 today.
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023
It’s slow, it’s awkward, the scenes linger much longer than expected. The composition, lighting, and coloring are simple, straightforward, plain even. Beautifully long drawn out scenes of conversations — or the lack thereof — give an awkwardly believable and potent realism to this film.
Odd as they may at first seem, the purpose of these stylistic choices allow the film to slowly lull you into that believable and brutal realism. A sense of realism just as brutal and slow dawning as the…
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Life After BOB: The Chalice Study 2021
This weird little short film about a cyberpunk future where AI assistants have begun integration with the human psyche is sticky.
It’s more surreal, trippy, and thoughtful than its boilerplate scifi premise might lead one to believe. That premise: gamified-life-achievement-chore-bots-plot-the-multiversal-prime-life-paths-of-their-augmented-cyborg-hosts.
While at first timid wade into the waters of this strange narrative it might seem a hodgepodge of buzz-word concepts peppered across a seemingly disjointed plot, a deeper plunge reveals that by the very nature of its disorienting telling and ambiguous conclusions there…
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