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Malcolm X 1992
some thoughts and opinions I wrote in bed. I’ll probably rewrite this over time or get rid of it, but I’m too lazy to copy this down in my journal:
It’s been a year since I’ve last seen Lee’s era-spanning opus of the dogmatic trailblazer, or the universal martyr, Malcolm X. A lot has changed, yet a lot has stayed the same, it’s only a matter of night and day to determine the differences. Whether I’m identifying the changes in…
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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
“A person who’ll apologize for wrongs he didn’t commit is capable for all sorts of terrible things.”
A Brighter Summer Day is a narrative odyssey I wish everyone can experience once in their lifetime. The film follows a student—Xiao Si’r—living in Taipei in the midst of political turmoil with street gangs running amok as a way to cope with the growing loneliness and uncertainty of the future that everyone in the town faces. The story meticulously unfolds into a spiral…
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