Tian Xu

Tian Xu

Favorite films

  • Happy Hour
  • Two Laws
  • A Dramatic Film
  • The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

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  • Old Joy

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

  • The Matrix

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  • Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    insta story, home movie, dumbledore’s pensieve, however u want to call it. i had trouble sitting through it, maybe not the right mood, maybe it’s too looss, also if im gonna sit through 3hrs of ordinary life i may as well go outside and do it there while exercising my legs and breathing fresh air with a real sun shining on my face. i like sitting on a bench or lying down just watching or listening

    i think jonas must…

  • The Gleaners and I

    The Gleaners and I

    ★★★★½

    Quite astonishing

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  • Return to Dust

    Return to Dust

    ★★★★

    Return to Dust gives an incredibly realistic and saddening depiction of rural China. Some people feel this film is romanticising rural life and is just “poverty porn”. On the contrary, I do not see anything appealing about the life portrayed. It is harsh, hard-earned, unappreciated, and exploited at every turn.

    I think one way to read this film is to treat the romantic relationship as material for surrounding events. These events reflect something much deeper about Chinese rural life, the…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★

    I wish for a Batman film that does more justice to anarchism. Let Batman work together with a villain to dismantle a democracy eroded by capitalism, and attempt to build a stateless society based on communities and mutual aid, and build conflict from there. Don’t just blow up shit and hope Gotham magically rebuilds itself corruption-free.

    Twilight Batman is pretty cool though.

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