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  Sans Soleil 1983

  ★★½ Watched 21 Apr 2020

  I fell asleep five times trying to finish this, the scenes are indeed beautiful, but just poems with travel logs don’t suffice.

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  Rashomon 1950

  ★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2020

  Like other Kurosawa’s, the film is beautifully shot, his aesthetics never disappoints me.
  Given it a “mysterious” thriller, the movie turns out to be quite straight forward to me. The themes: justice, truth and false, and humanity, are played linearly that It almost feels like Aesop’s Fables, there is nothing wrong with it though. To simply summarise the theme, everyone has their own interpretation of what happens, no one is right or wrong (not talking about morally, but the truth…

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  Ivan's Childhood 1962

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2020

  I have a love and hate relationship with Tarkovsky. I love him for his maestro level aestheticism and poetic vision. I hate him for occupying my time to appreciate his series of stunning images which don’t seem to really connect, sometimes meaningless, sometimes forceful, in a sense that he put it there just because it looks beautiful, but I would never comment him as pretentious, because I believe all the images, the drama-less silence, and plots that leads nowhere in…

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  Jack of all Trades 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Jul 2019

  This is a very unique documentary, or a very “real” documentary. I wasn’t that much into it because I thought it’s just about baseball cards which I have no care, but it gets interesting as it starts to reveal the story of this once a brilliant child star and his long hidden pain. This film is not super well produced, but it is very genuine and not trying hard to squeeze the story out to touch the audience like many…

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