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The Power of Kangwon Province 1998
This is a sad but also beautiful film. Compared to Hong's first film, the narrative here flows better and I think he's getting there; creating an intimate and careful look at the landscape of South Korea through the flow of lives of its inhabitants.
It's the gap, the minor details, the lack, the unanswered questions we've had in our mind that makes watching this film a mundane but looking-inwards experience; it's just a passing but still it is something.
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The Exterminating Angel 1962
I was astounded and couldn't think for a while after watching the film. What did I just watch? How could a person make such thing? Who expects pressing play and watch a mockery of rich people can be a magical spectacle. I imagine the film to be completely different if we watch it in cinema; imagine having to sit in a dark room, glued to your seat, and watch the nightmarish loop of crumbling societal order again and again. It's…
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002
This is my first Hong Sang-soo's film. I don't know about his recent films. But this one reminds me of an old-school film: a simple story, lots of medium shots, the foreground-background layers of the staging...
I love it. And I laugh along with it. The simplicity and the absurdity of it.
On the note of hetero-male fantasy, I think it speaks a lot about its incompleteness, dysfunctionality, and emptiness. I don't hate the position of women in this film,…
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