ryan gao

ryan gao

Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Whiplash
  • Perfect Days

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  • Smile 2

    ★★★

  • Afternoons of Solitude

    ★★★½

  • Real Steel

    ★★★★★

  • The Singing Revolution

    ★★★★½

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  • Smile 2

    Smile 2

    ★★★

    not horror more gruesome 

    first introduced to the franchise yesterday at a friendsgiving but i feel like it wasn’t as scary as i thought it was

  • Afternoons of Solitude

    Afternoons of Solitude

    ★★★½

    although i fell asleep in the beginning, this was such an interesting and vulgar film. 

    i never knew that bullfighting consisted of killing the bull, but damn was that interesting.

    yea, you can make the argument that it was just a documentary on some bullfight across different events but it much more than that. the outfits, the language, the way they treat the bull were all important things they needed to consider. 

    that focal guy was definitely the goat of this whole tradition and its controversy will continue to be contested for many years to come

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  • In the Mood for Love

    In the Mood for Love

    ★★★½

    this movie want me to not fall in love 

    shi got real when you live in a desolated and dispirited relationship with your s/o

    it was interesting how you did not get to see the s/o until the end 

    the green represented that time to imagine and to live in the mind, and it certainly presented that isolation through the film 

    one thing  i’ll say is that you need a good attention span to watch it; be patient and this film will reward you

  • The Pursuit of Happyness

    The Pursuit of Happyness

    ★★★★★

    What does it mean to be happy?

    only found out this was a real story until after

    either way, it felt very real

    smith did a great job, showing the perplexities of fatherhood and taking risk. he taught about adversity and what it means to sacrifice.

    though a movie and quite fantasy, watching the movie at this point of my life was nearly perfect.

    go Chris Gardner

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