Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A soft-spoken, quiet little film that’s also bursting full of music - the soundtrack is so wonderful. I really appreciated that the deadpan direction never devolves into irony, and despite its static facade, the romance moves so nimbly and gently through its ups and downs. Some very refreshing sincerity.
Also, 10/10 dog :’)
Commercial products are lifted to the same level of pageantry and spectacle as political banners and leaders. American culture is imported and along with it, the socioeconomics whose innate byproduct is the malaise felt by our main characters.
The characters, one hopeful for a future and one nostalgic for the past, are both rendered expendable commodities under the burgeoning capitalism: Chin is pushed into unemployment as her position at her old company becomes obsolete under its acquisition; in a more…