Directors do really be loving to make Paul Mescal ugly cry.
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Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Would you judge me if I told you I cried at the cockroach scene? A played allusion, but somehow unpretentious, humble even. Tsai Ming-liang never betrays his audience. He respects our need for authenticity. Realness permeates (grimy apartments, resentful father/needy mother, Woodstock throw pillow). Every moment genuine, every scene denuded of its common showy gloss. Beauty in the mundane, the ugly... sure, but more than that. Human interactions - with each other, with their environment, with their fates - stripped-down…
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