chtholly15

chtholly15

Favorite films

  • Still Walking
  • A City of Sadness
  • Yi Yi
  • Suzaku

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  • No Other Land

  • Black Box Diaries

    ★★★★

  • Cleaners

    ★★★★

  • Taipei Story

    ★★★★½

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    “Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then?”

  • Black Box Diaries

    Black Box Diaries

    ★★★★

    What is law really stands for?
    justice? truth? 
    I think it never really matters isn’t it,
    LAW is only the symbolism of power play. 
    Where does even law comes from? From what principle does it comes from? Morals? Ethics? 
    This system of obeying rules from one country is really ridiculous, where it’s only stripping freedom from the powerless and benefit to MINORITY who is powerful. I think we never have a choice where to be born and to be obeying a…

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  • Guián

    Guián

    ★★★½

    Being a Chinese-Indonesian watching this film gives me a certain soft spot. 

    I believe there’s a similarity for all of us Chinese immigrants and a same voice. I am not Indonesian but also not Chinese. 

    So who am I? 

    A question that resulted in a quest to search for an identity. A sense of longing of a culture that I suppose to have but never know it from parents but knowing it from grandparents. 

    Visions du Reel - Film Market 2023

  • Intimacies

    Intimacies

    ★★★½

    Been a while but glad to be back and to watch this 4 hours long of movie was an amazing experience of the day.

    That being said Hamaguchi already declare himself in his early stage of his career to be one of the best. How he always show his character spoke to represent their state of emotion as time passes is just there is no word to describe.

    Telling two story in one movie.. It explained why Drive my Car…

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