watched live in concert
got to see justin hurwitz conduct it live!!!!!
watched it to celebrate my upcoming 20th birthday and my god did this arrive at the perfect time. the "maybe i'm not good enough" convo outside the library fucking hit me so damn hard. i just came right off the heels of directing my first proper short film and it kind of crippled me because it's not that good! and i'm looking for universities overseas to pursue film…
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the three most bisexual people in the world try to escape their ennui with indirect kisses via ice cubes and cigarettes
ok for real, i liked this a lot more than i thought i would.
chen approaches the story with a focus on emotions and scattered experiences, weaving a tapestry of quiet emotional moments and internal workings so strong that they become external. it works well because of this, trading clichéd arguments and big showy emotions for a sad stare…
ouch. love hurts indeed.
i don't remember the last time i watched a film where i felt overwhelming second hand embarrassment at what's on screen. to be blunt, student films work better than this. where to begin?
the script is just... awful. putting aside the needlessly complicated story, the agonising side assassin romance subplot and the non-developed main romance, the dialogue is laughably terrible. i'm not kidding, this approaches the room levels of bad. they have one of the villains…
