Vicki Chiu

Vicki Chiu

Favorite films

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Annie Hall
  • Magnolia

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  • Maharaja

    ★★★

  • Tove’s Room

    ★★★½

  • Uglies

    ★★

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★½

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  • Maharaja

    Maharaja

    ★★★

    Watching this film has made me realized how much I am used to the traditional three acts hero’s journey narrative model and have become lazy with a story form. It took me a look of re winding to make sense of the plot and the symbolists representation. Overall it is packed with lots of information, details and interesting social issues, crossing over gender, class, governance and family.

  • Uglies

    Uglies

    ★★

    Entertaining, but too much cliche ideas. It is like the Divergence+ The hunger games put together and hope for something new.

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  • One Day

    One Day

    ★★★

    Pretty British, reminding me of all those British productions such as weddings and funerals. Picked it because having read quite a lot of good reviews and was missing England.  It turns out my uni life has far gone and should be for someone in their 20s.

  • Monster

    Monster

    ★★★½

    Distinctively a Japanese aesthetics,  developing a 5th grade’s internal transformation through the changes going through different bonds, friendship, and the cultural context. Slow, mysterious but real and pure.

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