The film is permeated by the vibes of cải-luong (reformed theater), a kind of traditional Southern Vietnamese folk opera. Here features a young guy who appears quite violent in action, quite muscular and rugged in build, and quite terse and monotonous in words. There features another young guy who appears meek and slim and naive and nice. They have the same childhood studded with memories of cải-luong troupes and activities. Yet as courses of their lives roll on, one strolls…
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Dunkirk 2017
Dunkirk, by Christopher Nolan, doesn't feature a compendious account of a historic campaign undertaken by the British in the titular place in 1940. Rather, it narrates the sheer atmosphere that would have transpired in any desperate war effort human beings get stuck in.
Three cinematic spaces, three angles, three overlapping narrative threads with different on-screen duration for each, one psychological time, and zero main characters. Certainly there are some more outstanding characters than others: a British young soldier who goes…
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Sheer Madness 1983
In a scene, one of two female protagonists is scornfully yelled at by her husband who says that it's because of him that she wasn't sent into an asylum. Dostoevsky once put it that "it is not by locking one's neighbor that one convinces oneself of one's own good sense." In this case, that saying could be adapted as something like "it is not by not sending one's close relative to an asylum that one convinces himself of his own…
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Buttoners 1997
This movie gets a quite unusual sense of humor. By loosely connecting several weird circumstances, it conveys a comedic sense, ironically, through some absurdist yet witty elements.
The movie gets started eccentrically when a guy complains about no swear words in Japanese and begins to show others how to say "fucking weather" in English; partly because he wants to curse something about the terribly rainy weather out of which the city they're staying at avoids being bombed later (by American,…
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