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Closer 2004
Rewatching for the first time since I was 16 or 17.
Compellingly written though you can tell it was originally a play. The timeline switches and dialog lines are immaculate. The acting is so exceptional in the portrayal of the mediocre characters (as some argue) being the emotional mess they are.
Also, I have to go listen to that Damien Rice album again.Translated from by -
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Cemetery of Splendor 2015
Not a review, just some thoughts upon first watch
- the protagonist is a liminal character
- only the liminal protagonist gets to find release and comfort in the other world(ly)
- standing at limits in several ways: she is disabled but takes care of those who are ill (hospital patients); is a widow but also a wife; is Thai but married to an American, speaks both Thai and English unlike the other Thai people; is the only one seen…
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The Man with Three Coffins 1987
Tad fucked-up and misogynist in a typical literary Korean sense (ummmm this won a Yi Sang Literary Award?). The mudang/shaman, pansori, and Gangwon-do views partially made up for it
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