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Crystal 1988
Ephemerality.
Inscrutable motions of twilight specters condensing on the evening's signature - the Crystal.
According to the opening credits, there is indeed accompanying music to the film; but due to some technical problems I watched it sans audio anyway. Bits of texts from an equally enigmatic short story I read a long time ago, however, kept ringing on that void. The writer, the plot, the characters, even the title; I can barely recall any of the vital details. And things…Translated from by
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Yi Yi 2000
At about one-third of the film, there is a specific scene that outlines the mechanism at work here; the son traversing four CCTV screens diagonally and finally entering a basketball ground captured from a high shot. They are neither vignettes nor split screens (of a single space) exactly, rather independent entities capable of forming a communion. Yi Yi too unfolds in the same way; every object, every sound, every movement, every hue and such, follows a natural (and logical) progression,…
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The Woman Who Ran 2020
*Finally picking up the pace after more than a month without films, what better appetizer than a Hong Sang-soo film.*
Essentially another series of conversations and observations yet again, but just as fascinating as every Hong film. Initially I wanted to put together more expansively some of my interpretations and views on Hong Sang-soo and his works in general, but figured they would be better spent on my exclusive favourites: Right Now Wrong Then, Oh! Soo-jung, Night & Day, Hill of…
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