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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Pure Creative Genius
What an absolute masterpiece. Brilliant creative genius. No words can describe it. All Dharma Realms = Mind = All beings. Grandpa is the traditional value and hierarchy. It's judgmental and impossible to please. Daughter is rebellion against the hierarchy and find liberation in emptiness/nihilism. Father is trying to please everyone, suppress himself to take care others first as a way to cope. Mother realized the middle way. Letting go and embrace are the same thing. Suffering and happiness are the same. Everything and everywhere, we are all in it together.
Deiji (2006)
something missing...
The cast are good. The setup is interesting. However I cannot stop feeling that there is something missing in this movie. It lacks couple things that would make the audience believe in the story. The main problem, I believe, is the characters lack depth. The constant flashbacks waste a lot of time telling the same story three times. Therefore, although the movie is fairly long, there are not enough scenes for each character to develop and show us their personalities. The setting is also unbelievable as well. A bunch of Koreans in Netherland, especially one working as a cop and one working as an assassin, does this feel like a credible story?
The movie is somewhat entertaining, the actors and actress did a good job, the cinematography is pleasing but I just feel disappointed that all these good effort did not add up to a good movie.
Kong que (2005)
refinely intricate
The director (or may be the screen writer, I don't know who to credit for) created an unusual film that is extremely real and plain yet full of drama and surprises. In the beginning of the movie, I thought it is just another typical art-house film. Slow-paced, good cinematography, weird characters, and other elements that aim to showcase the director's style. Yet as the film gradually reveals all of its wonders, I realized that the director intentionally stayed low-key to deliver a subtle message about our real daily life that otherwise would be overshadowed by anything less delicate.
The story is about a family from the perspectives of its three children. It is one family yet every one of the children has a complete different experience and view of their childhood. From one person's perspective, you may believe something about the family. Yet you have to change your ideas when another perspective is shared. As you learn more and more about the family, you see that the people are just entrapped in their perspective and creating their own reality. They choose to see what they want to see and unknowingly get what they created for themselves.
The director is extremely efficient. Every scene reveal much about the characters and naturally hold the story together wasting almost no time. Concurrently the movie presented both the heaviness of our daily grind and the possibility of liberation. (since we set the trap ourselves, we can liberate ourselves). So behind the masquerade of a slow-paced art-house film, the movie is really an "action-packed" or, better, "emotion-packed" discourse on human nature and our search for happiness. Only because of the refined realism in this movie, the subtle message is allowed to be expressed fully. Anything less delicate will not do.