The beginning of the film is the sea also is the end of the LATE SPRING (1949), Ozu may didn’t have the mind to connect this two, but maybe he is going to express something eternal.
Causality in Ozu’s character is the key points that made us trust them, his film is not about the plot, actions, but it’s about the character.
kids in Ozu’s film are a figure to question and challenge authority
Ozu is one of the most…
Under the overwhelming marketing publicity, this movie "Hot Hot Hot" has successfully become a talking point of the Chinese New Year. Whether on social media or in the movie trailer, we can easily summarize two themes: "Jialing lost 100 pounds" and "female director". These two points also coincide with the current topics of "look anxiety" and "feminism". So it was no surprise that the movie became a hit. But the very existence of these two is contradictory.
Both men and…
An orgy of outright consumerism? A verbal attack on Hong Kong? Chinese director sex addiction syndrome?
It turns out that my dereliction of duty, the audio-visual language that I had, was utterly defeated in this anemic and dismal movie. I can no longer speak of any critique of the audiovisual, as the movie itself is designed to disable the viewer's ability to think by being fed the bourgeois notions of consumption that the director actively worships. But this is in…
