very affecting on rewatch, easily glazer’s best. kidman is incredible, especially the way she speaks to the kid in that first scene - she somehow manages to synthesize the benign tone an adult uses to talk to a foreign child and the whispers of someone haunted by an interminable grief, having a one-way conversation with a loved one’s gravestone, keeping their spirit up to date, leaving flowers. also, best child actor performance of all time?
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A Touch of Zen 1971
"According to Hu himself, he was told by a devout old Buddhist that the concept of ‘zen’ (or ‘chan’) could never be explained. It could only be felt through ‘an awakening to the truth,’ which could only be achieved through example or analogy, rather than explanation or logical analysis. In the 1975 Cannes press kit, Hu explains this by using the analogy of the concept of sweetness, which according to him can only really be explained by giving someone a…
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Demonlover 2002
the tentacles of patriarchal capitalist violence crawling through the fresh wound between the old world and the cyber world; these y2k speculative works about how every aspect of society is about to be irrevocably transformed by the internet all have the awesome anxiety of being at the top of a cultural rollercoaster in the moment before a plunge into complete chaos. everyone born after this movie’s release was brought up in a fundamentally different world with totally new ways of teaching young people about sex - namely, through extremely accessible and demonically evil internet porn
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