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Yi Yi 2000
“The film is simply about life, portrayed across a spectrum of its span.” - Edward Yang
The last time I saw this movie I was just in my second semester of college, hopelessly trudging through the pandemic. Two years later, I am a week away from starting my first “real” job in NYC after graduating. I wanted to rewatch Yi Yi because it, among many other things, is about the changes humans face in their lives. Now, on the verge of…
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Drive My Car 2021
“What can we do? We must live our lives.”
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Drive My Car was released at an interesting time in the world. The global COVID-19 pandemic seemed to be slowing down and a sense of recovery was beginning to arise. However, it would be hard to move past the nearly two years of insurmountable loss the world had felt. Healing was necessary for all of us. When I saw Drive My Car for the first time, a story about dealing…
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Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Taipei is a constantly evolving city. I’ve visited twice within the span of a year and have been amazed at the sheer number of construction projects taking place. All this development and change comes at the cost of losing remnants and the identity of the past. For example, when I visited in 2024, I was able to walk across a pedestrian bridge featured in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi. When I went back not even a year later, it was gone.…
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Meeting with Pol Pot 2024
I was pretty disappointed with this. It randomly switches from live action to wooden figurines, not necessarily as a justifiable stylistic choice, but due to budgetary restraints. I know this director employs this in his other works, but it just did not feel necessary here and was pretty jarring.
The screening was followed by a Q&A with the director and the writer of the book this film was based on. The writer, Elizabeth Becker, is a journalist that visited Cambodia…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Nolan is purely a “technical” filmmaker. He is utterly incapable of breaching the surface level of basic human emotion. I find him and his movies to be devoid of soul, ethics, responsibility, and character. Like a majority of his work, I despised this movie.
Even with his self-obsessed, masturbatory appreciation of film as a purely technical endeavor, he still manages to craft a technically incompetent movie. He quite literally filmed every dialogue sequence in shot-reverse-shot format. Not only is this…
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Morbius 2022
Famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”. This quote has haunted me for years as I have searched for a meaning in this cruel world. Well, today I truly believe I have discovered something worth living for. This of course is the new Marvel™ movie: Marvel’s™ Morbius™.
From the visionary mind of director Daniel Espinosa (creator of such hits as Easy Money and Child 44),…
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