jie chua

jie chua

Favorite films

  • Nobody Knows
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • Mirrored Mind

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  • Daisies

    ★★★½

  • The Interview

    ★★½

  • The Seventh Continent

    ★★★★½

  • Dogtooth

    ★★★★

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  • Daisies

    Daisies

    ★★★½

    does it really matter??

  • The Interview

    The Interview

    ★★½

    lmao

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  • Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind

    ★★★★½

    This film came to me at a very eerily appropriate time, at a creative standstill with a whirlpool of uncertainties for my next production. I really needed to see this.

    This film fed directly into my soul. It did not bring me any closer to my body but it calmed my mind. The subtle attention to pacing and montage makes this a deeply meditative film. The visuals are soft and the dialogue concise but true. It feels like a respite…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ½

    I watched this on Halloween and it didn’t make it any better.
    The plot was rife with logical inconsistencies, coming across super tacky with buzzwords like ‘matrix’, god-awful font, and in general a very try-hard camera style. It missed the mark on reeling me into the universe, but tried to make up for it with very excessively wet (?!) SFX. In my opinion, there were sounds where sounds should not be.
    This film was an attempt to replicate a more…

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