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Ching se (1993)
Insightful exploration of spiritual themes through a humorous romance drama
Beautiful movie, exploring philosophical buddhist themes as reincarnation, spiritual elevation and transmutation of souls, but in a captivating and often humorous romance drama.
The use of camerawork, lighting and decors is exceptional. Yes, a lot of the special effects and graphics are clearly fake, but it doesn't take too much away from the movie as a whole.
The setting is also amazing, what a beautiful ancient town, nature and temples we get to see.
What does it mean to be human? Is a monk always right when it comes to matters of spirituality? These and more questions will be answered in this masterpiece.
Touching, funny, inspiring. A+++
Kiga kaikyô (1965)
A new favourite
Some old movies are hard to watch for a modern audience. This one shouldn't be one of them, unless you are addicted to 10 second reels on Instagram.
It's instantly gripping through the camerawork alone, showing beautiful scenes with effects that intend and succeed in denominatng moments from the past, in one's mind, or taking place in the spiritual realm.
It made me think of Dostojevski's 'Crime and Punishment', and I wish that there was a book of it too, it might really be as good if written well. The dialogues are short and straight forward. I really like the stoicism of the past times Japanese people in general, and in this movie it really shines, as it adds to the mystery of the protagonist. He's not completely evil, and shown to be admired by many, doing good deeds and donations. At some point you almost want to believe in his innocence. But he betrays himself, as many do, fulfilling the prophetic saying that haunted him since the early stages ' There are many ways to hell, but no way back ' I wonder if in the end, he really suicided, or perhaps swam to shore to continue his life under another new name.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
SO BAD
I really liked Dr Strange 1, there was the obnoxious surgeon whose life seemed crushed, and in order to heal he found this mystical place, where he not only healed but found a true meaning to life, and in the process of training and saving the world became a better person. It was good.
Then this. No character development. At all. The premise of dreams being realities in other universes? Ugh. And all the other universes are shown to be as random as anything right. Even splashes of paint, weird lights, totally unlike the 'main' one. So how do the same people even exist in all of those universes? How do the same things happen to them? Love, death, all major events everywhere seem to be the same. This is just another one of off-putting plotholes.
Another one is the motive of the main villain. So boring, so fake. Yeah, a mom's love goes far. But she's supposed to be a loving mother and a supervillain? Killing her alternate self and all that, traumatizing her own kids? And she just can not be reasoned with about this absurdity. It doesn't really mix or seem remotely believable, even with the cheap excuse of the darkhold corrupting her mind.
And FINALLY, if only the girl whose name i won't even remember just BELIEVES IN HERSELF, she can use her superpower and really none of the whole mess created beforehand would've been necessary. So inspirational right. Ugh.
I won't watch part 3. What a downfall, what a disappointment.
The Northman (2022)
Boring, bland, pretentious
I couldn't care for any character, not even the protagonist. He's very simple and uninspiring. This movie is just boring really, with no character development, corny pretentiously solemn dialogue, and the fight scenes are really weak and fake as hell.
Gi-eok-ui bam (2017)
Over the top, lots of wasted potential
This story would have been so good, scary and hard hitting if it didn't get ruined in the second half. After a great buildup and good acting, camerawork and buildup of suspense and mystery, the second part is just an over the top mess with so many quite unbelievable situations and plotholes that it just spoils everything and left me scoffing, instead of speechless, with would have been a fitting end for all the misery the characters endure.
Ddongpari (2008)
No matter what, you have to live
This movie is one of my all time favorites. It's hardly enjoyable. What good is it if it is not enjoyable? I don't know. But this film makes you forget it is one, and instead takes you on a tour along the deepest and most painful places of the human psyche. History repeats, violence brings on violence. Trying to break the cycle, the protagonist pays with his life.
Interlude scenes of innocence, intimacy and laughter to calming music paint the stark contrasts in life, and make sure you will appreciate the happiness you can find in this rotten place.
La grande bellezza (2013)
I don't know
How Jep is SO obscenely rich... every other decor looks like a million dollars. Apparently he wrote a very very popular, yet deeply artistic and intellectual book ( how one gets so rich in that genre idk). He wrote when he was in love, now his soul dull and tired from the stimuli of high society life. Very pretentious and arrogant people, like Jep himself, but he seems to notice it and is in fact ashamed, or still arrogant? Will he find a deeper meaning? Should a 'normal person' care?