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Past Lives 2023
"What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?"
The lover whose palm finds and slips easily into yours, whose warmth engulfs in a bear hug, whose smiles and laughter you've come to realise encompass different meanings -- excitement, anxiety, affection, endearment, melancholy -- is now a stranger who carries with them your secrets, your habits and a part of your heart.
And in their next life, a stranger will seem oddly familiar and comfortable, like they've known them for years.
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Small, Slow But Steady 2022
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The Way Home 2002
I remember watching this when I was fifteen (in a secondary school enrichment elective). I sobbed and openly sniffled in front of eighteen other people without shame.
The unconditional love of a grandmother for her grandson and the two wrestling to taper the generation gap through small gestures of affection, tenderness and sacrifice made my heart crumble to pieces.
Often, many films have taught us to appreciate mothers but this film pays homage to the strong and wise ones we have already lost or are losing––grandmothers.
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To Live 1994
My granduncle was a liberal arts professor (back then they called it 文学教授) in Fudan during the Cultural Revolution and had spent 10 years in prison between the age of 42 and 52. When I was younger, I visited him a couple of times in Shanghai and every time, he would tell me: "When you grow up, be a doctor. Everyone needs doctors. They will beat the philosophers, they will execute the budding politicians but they will never keep doctors…
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