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All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001
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I see a lot of people getting upset about the sexually violent content in this film. And it is upsetting. But if we're willing to afford the director the benefit of the doubt,—as I think we should for any director who hasn't transgressed in real life—we have to think about why he chose to include it. If it truly was just to advance the plot, then I agree he's a massive piece of shit. But you also don't make a…
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Secret Sunshine 2007
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Written as a final research paper for a university Korean Cinema course (my original work):
21 April 2024
Constructed Realities: The Idiosyncratic Presentation of Religion in Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine (2007) and How It Applies to a Wider Korea
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Korea is an outlier in East Asia with regards to religion. As such, analyzing Korean society through a religious lens offers a unique approach in contention with it. Lee Chang-dong particularizes South Korean Christianity to take it seriously as a…Translated from by
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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
Amazing parallelism, fascinating compositions and framing, excellent dialogue, and a brrrrutal story. 4-hour post-war(ish) immigrant epic that The Brutalist couldn't dream of being despite its status as an Oscar love child, whereas A Brighter Summer Day is rarely mentioned outside of East Asian cinema fan circles (though it's in the top 250 here).
Cat (小貓) is the realest bro.
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Insanely difficult for an L2 Mandarin speaker. Naturalistic, colloquial (and possibly old fashioned–I don't hear Taiwanese guys calling girls "Miss"),…Translated from by -
Inner Workings 2016
Knew I had seen the Franciscan friar gag before but didn't realize this had premiered with Moana in the theater. First half was painfully hard to follow due to the editing. I wish they had just made the organs visible or hazily so rather than doing the black background. Would've looked nicer, been less distracting, and required fewer cuts.
Decent if liberal message. It's definitely preferable to do one's part find light where it is than to close one's eyes and put one's head down, but at some point we need to get out of the cave.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
When I decided to watch this I could not imagine how bad it was. Hate watched at the request of my brother, and it wasn't even fun to laugh at like a cult film. The first English song was so bad I literally got nauseated. The second one was extremely cringe. The production quality of every musical number was inferior to decade-old songs on YouTube.
I thought it might just be a victim of Spanish-style writing for English songs (see…
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Window to America 1952
Hey, Kent!
only flaw with this was that it felt like it sped through all the scathing critiques of capitalism and the US in the first half. still the characters were all wildly entertaining (though not unrealistic, which is telling), and the white face was convincing enough that it was slightly jarring hearing Chinese come out of their mouths. super avant garde, morbid, and hysterical film and a little surprising to see just three years into the PRC as such
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