When the first Inside Out came out, I was 15. For someone who just got into movies, it was a transformative experience. Glued to my seat, I was completely awestruck by Pixar's sheer imagination. While the very plot of the first movie faded quickly, I can still palpably remember my younger self, staring at the silver screen and wondering how a single movie could formulate –– and articulate –– something that I was hopelessly trying to grasp as I was…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Reminds me of a Sarah Kane quote: “To create something beautiful about despair, or out of a feeling of despair, is for me the most hopeful, life-affirming thing a person can do.”
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The Exiles 2022
Sundance #4
As a native Chinese, I'm appreciative of all the footage, either censored or newly made, of a topic rarely brought up in where I came from. It's even more surprised to meet the unapologetic cigarette-smoking, fuck-saying QUEEN Christine Choy. I found it very intriguing for the film to juxtapose the political exiles past and present—especially with Choy showing the rare footage from some 30 years back—and to observe their reactions and lingering hopes for a country they still…
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