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Primate 1974
“No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.”
— Kafka, “A Report for an Academy”
Primate is a stark depiction of the procedures…
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Nope 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A film about Spectacle that directly refers to spectacle through dialogue at least three times.
The first half is glacial and obtuse, the character moments are too often a bit inane or not quite funny, and —unfortunately — no singular moment comes quite as close to rivaling the cinematic insanity of the scene in Close Encounters of a Third Kind (one of my few UFO-genre reference points) when Roy first encounters the UAP in his truck.
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In Front of Your Face 2021
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“We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” – Shakespeare, The Tempest.
If dreams are the phenomena that most closely resembles death, then it is telling that In Front of Your Face both begins and ends in the midst of one.
The film’s narrative centers around Sangok, who is temporarily staying with her sister, Jeongok, in Seoul. Like most of Hong’s films, context is limited and reconstructed in…
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