This is another amazing work by Emma Stone. I have to say that I found the pacing too slow, and it bored me a little. But as the consciousness awakened, I began to experience what she experienced. It felt like I was feeling things on her behalf, or maybe she was building me into a virtual and non-exist world.
The vintage punk stuffs, costumes, and special effects in the films completely captivated me. You’ll notice that the male characters are…
I think the music in this movie adds so much value to it. I remember when I was in Paris, I desperately wanna go to this bar that was one of their filming locations. When you walk into the underground bar, there’s live jazz music, with drinks, and people dancing wildly under the red dim light, just soaking the vibes. It’s like you are the one steeping out of the real life and into a scene from the movie. But…
I remember when this movie was released, the posters that I saw in London’s tube kept flooding my memory. At that time, I thought it was just another old love story. But after watching, I realized it was such more than that. Every female character resonates to me, like vibrant people we might bump into at any street Conor.
The film portrays the class struggles and the seemingly unattainable gaps in modern society. The final scene made me cry so…
“I don’t know when it started, but everything seems to have an expiration date, Sardines will expire, canned meat will too, even plastic wrap expires. It makes me wonder, is there anything in this world that won’t expire?”
This is a movie that fully attracted me. The warm colour tone, the jump-cut cinematography….. it all comes together to make Hong Kong feel both unfamiliar and deeply intimate to me. But I think it captures the tension of human deepest emotions…
