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Youth (Spring) 2023
电影院是车间：有音乐和机械运动，有肆意的人，也是时间流逝被压缩的舞台，并与资本相关。视角上有一种宏观、冷静、公正的平视态度，不是展示苦难，生活也并不贫瘠，而是会让人觉得时间依然短暂的电影，观众恰恰没什么好愧疚的，看生活的一种样态，看系统的限度，看人的自身。
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Walk Up 2022
In this film, Hong is establishing multiple temporal realities in a relatively fixed space, the building. The details related to several groups of characters indicate hidden and intricate connections. Like always, alcohol, sleep and dreams play as the catalysts for hallucinations.
Taking the film as a piece of music or a song, the electronic door sound is like the verse, the guitar music is the chorus which always functions as time-jumping division. The repeated music usually casts a spell on…
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The Novelist's Film 2022
At the beginning of the film, when the writer's finger touches the text, perhaps her books, there is a loud voice meeting the silence, the concept of sound film, the sound added to the image, is showed. This touch reminds me of a film poster from Le Livre d’image, by Jean-Luc Godard.
It is rare to see a core theme of filmmaking or how people understand films in most Hong’s works. Hong honestly make his character tell his audiences the change…
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