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"300" tells the story of King Leonidas and 300 Spartans battling thousands of Persians at Thermopylae. The film highlights courage, loyalty, and sacrifice for freedom. "This is Sparta!" symbolizes their unyielding spirit. It conveys the power of unity and bravery against overwhelming odds
Me/ Thailand
We also watch K-drama ; I watched coffee prince as a first one😂
We also watch K-drama ; I watched coffee prince as a first one😂
🎬Norway Series: Norwegian High School Youth Drama
🇳🇴Norway: «VGS»
📸Introduction:
How far are you willing to go to get into the inner circle - whether it's just an idea or a lie?
Amalie and Josef must spend their first year of high school in VGS. They are older, their daily lives are harder, and the consequences are more serious.
It can be seen as a Nordic version of a youth campus drama. The background of the American high school drama on Netflix is changed to Norway. This is probably what it feels like. To be honest, I personally think it's pretty good. The color tone and BGM of Nordic dramas will continue to add points to me. As for the plot, it depends on personal opinion. In fact, it's just a campus drama, and there is no profound intention, but it's really fun to watch it.
🇳🇴Norway: «VGS»
📸Introduction:
How far are you willing to go to get into the inner circle - whether it's just an idea or a lie?
Amalie and Josef must spend their first year of high school in VGS. They are older, their daily lives are harder, and the consequences are more serious.
It can be seen as a Nordic version of a youth campus drama. The background of the American high school drama on Netflix is changed to Norway. This is probably what it feels like. To be honest, I personally think it's pretty good. The color tone and BGM of Nordic dramas will continue to add points to me. As for the plot, it depends on personal opinion. In fact, it's just a campus drama, and there is no profound intention, but it's really fun to watch it.
"Once Upon a Time in America" is an unsurpassed gangster classic
"Once Upon a Time in America"
Director: [Italy] Sergio Leone
Release ▶️: 1984
Gangster | Crime | American Prohibition
🍸Adapted from the memoirs written by gangsters serving sentences in American prisons
(It took 13 years from selection to successful filming🥹)
🍸When an artistic literary work fascinates us, it is never with their theme, never with their meaning, but with their charming, textured expression built on a specific artistic medium and the language characteristics determined by this artistic medium. ——Dai Jinhua
🍸Struggle, deception, betrayal... Life is sometimes a makeshift team, but just like noodles, we always have to be sure of something
"Once Upon a Time in America"
Director: [Italy] Sergio Leone
Release ▶️: 1984
Gangster | Crime | American Prohibition
🍸Adapted from the memoirs written by gangsters serving sentences in American prisons
(It took 13 years from selection to successful filming🥹)
🍸When an artistic literary work fascinates us, it is never with their theme, never with their meaning, but with their charming, textured expression built on a specific artistic medium and the language characteristics determined by this artistic medium. ——Dai Jinhua
🍸Struggle, deception, betrayal... Life is sometimes a makeshift team, but just like noodles, we always have to be sure of something
Movie｜The Testament of Orpheus (1960)｜Jean Cocteau
This year marks the 61st anniversary of the release of Jean Cocteau's The Testament of Orpheus. As the final chapter of the great "Poet Trilogy" series spanning nearly 30 years, this work publicly displays Cocteau's artistic ideals on film and poetry. It is also the director's last song on the screen. It can be regarded as the disclosure of his private diary and his farewell to film art. In the film, vision "degenerates" into an auxiliary, returning to language, the basic tool of the poet.
This year marks the 61st anniversary of the release of Jean Cocteau's The Testament of Orpheus. As the final chapter of the great "Poet Trilogy" series spanning nearly 30 years, this work publicly displays Cocteau's artistic ideals on film and poetry. It is also the director's last song on the screen. It can be regarded as the disclosure of his private diary and his farewell to film art. In the film, vision "degenerates" into an auxiliary, returning to language, the basic tool of the poet.
Movies of the Week/2
1. "An Unexpected Journey"
2. "Intention"
1. "An Unexpected Journey"
2. "Intention"
One is Wang Jiamei, a 16-year-old mainland girl, who followed her remarried mother to Hong Kong, speaking poor Cantonese and not fitting in.
The other is Ding Zicong, a fat boy with a miserable childhood, who barely made ends meet by driving a truck in his early twenties. The blow of a broken heart left him devastated.
Jiamei chose a beautiful way to leave, suffocating to death in joy. It was the fat boy who helped her complete it.
"It turns out that such a thin person also has so much fat. There is a form but no spirit, a spirit but no soul."
The damp and cramped public housing, the dirty and narrow streets, this is another side of Hong Kong. Excluding the shining Victoria Harbour and the towering office buildings, the people in the story are like lonely wandering souls in this city. They don't have rooms with a view, but only loneliness that is more terrible than death.
The other is Ding Zicong, a fat boy with a miserable childhood, who barely made ends meet by driving a truck in his early twenties. The blow of a broken heart left him devastated.
Jiamei chose a beautiful way to leave, suffocating to death in joy. It was the fat boy who helped her complete it.
"It turns out that such a thin person also has so much fat. There is a form but no spirit, a spirit but no soul."
The damp and cramped public housing, the dirty and narrow streets, this is another side of Hong Kong. Excluding the shining Victoria Harbour and the towering office buildings, the people in the story are like lonely wandering souls in this city. They don't have rooms with a view, but only loneliness that is more terrible than death.
Save My Soul
Director: Leung Kam Fai
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese
Duration: 14 minutes
🎞️
The silent young man meets the blind old man and "transforms" into a cat.
The dumb young man who was ostracized by his peers left the city to live in the suburbs. When food was no longer readily available, he stole the food left by the blind old man in the mountains for stray cats. The two lonely people began a strange relationship and relied on each other. The famous song "Love of a Lifetime" from "Journey to the West: The Final Chapter of Cinderella" slowly sounded, accompanied by dreamy pictures, bringing the audience to a virtual world where truth and falsehood intertwined. The work of Hong Kong director Leung Kam Fai is refreshing and was selected for screening at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival.
What will happen to the two lonely souls when the dumb young man "transforms" into a cat?
Director: Leung Kam Fai
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese
Duration: 14 minutes
🎞️
The silent young man meets the blind old man and "transforms" into a cat.
The dumb young man who was ostracized by his peers left the city to live in the suburbs. When food was no longer readily available, he stole the food left by the blind old man in the mountains for stray cats. The two lonely people began a strange relationship and relied on each other. The famous song "Love of a Lifetime" from "Journey to the West: The Final Chapter of Cinderella" slowly sounded, accompanied by dreamy pictures, bringing the audience to a virtual world where truth and falsehood intertwined. The work of Hong Kong director Leung Kam Fai is refreshing and was selected for screening at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival.
What will happen to the two lonely souls when the dumb young man "transforms" into a cat?
The boy's beauty, paranoia, and intelligence always make people's heart move‼ ️
🎬The movie "Blind Love"
Love is blind. The woman that the boy fell in love with when he was blind, he still loved after he regained his sight
A smart boy does not love a good appearance, but the good smell and pleasant sound under the skin.
So, even if he loses his eyes again (piercing his eyes with ice chips), he can still feel the beauty and laugh happily under the white flowers scattered all over the sky~💫
🎬The movie "Blind Love"
Love is blind. The woman that the boy fell in love with when he was blind, he still loved after he regained his sight
A smart boy does not love a good appearance, but the good smell and pleasant sound under the skin.
So, even if he loses his eyes again (piercing his eyes with ice chips), he can still feel the beauty and laugh happily under the white flowers scattered all over the sky~💫
Do you dare to risk everything to love?
Do you think we are qualified to be loved?
Are you still looking for love?
We only have one life. Should we live it well according to what others say or follow our own heart?
…
These are the questions raised by the Korean movie "On the Beach at Night Alone"
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Kim Min-hee plays the role of the answerer
She is direct, sharp, beautiful, and pure
She will be moved by the scenery and bend down to pray
She will gently touch a flower in the sun
She dares to scold everyone loudly
And kisses her favorite sister with a smile
She makes people want to get close to her hopelessly
But they are afraid of being seen through by her and dodge and hesitate
She makes all other characters
seem shallow, mean, and dirty
Especially the man she gave up everything for
•
After watching the whole movie, it doesn't matter whether love is blessed or not by the world
Because it seems that those who truly understand love and deserve to be loved are destined to be lonely
Do you think we are qualified to be loved?
Are you still looking for love?
We only have one life. Should we live it well according to what others say or follow our own heart?
…
These are the questions raised by the Korean movie "On the Beach at Night Alone"
•
Kim Min-hee plays the role of the answerer
She is direct, sharp, beautiful, and pure
She will be moved by the scenery and bend down to pray
She will gently touch a flower in the sun
She dares to scold everyone loudly
And kisses her favorite sister with a smile
She makes people want to get close to her hopelessly
But they are afraid of being seen through by her and dodge and hesitate
She makes all other characters
seem shallow, mean, and dirty
Especially the man she gave up everything for
•
After watching the whole movie, it doesn't matter whether love is blessed or not by the world
Because it seems that those who truly understand love and deserve to be loved are destined to be lonely
Sharing some favorite classical movies | 02
▪️ Shouts and drizzle: red, white, black. Shouts are the gloomy and moving peaks, and after reaching the top, there is the roar of heavy rain. Those women in gorgeous clothes who are hopelessly kept, placed, left still, and displayed cannot reveal their shouts, so they hide their voices. The drizzle takes away the whispers, densely weaving the hills covered with mist, the whispering soil, and the names of gravel.
▪️ Shouts and drizzle: red, white, black. Shouts are the gloomy and moving peaks, and after reaching the top, there is the roar of heavy rain. Those women in gorgeous clothes who are hopelessly kept, placed, left still, and displayed cannot reveal their shouts, so they hide their voices. The drizzle takes away the whispers, densely weaving the hills covered with mist, the whispering soil, and the names of gravel.
Taken
Movie · 2008
I totally forgot to share this amazing movie I watched during the weekend. Somehow the main character reminded me of Jason Statham. It's such a nice action movie
https://nook.social/content/e36bef2f-a605-4b4f-b025-d9f3563570e5
Movie · 2008
I totally forgot to share this amazing movie I watched during the weekend. Somehow the main character reminded me of Jason Statham. It's such a nice action movie
https://nook.social/content/e36bef2f-a605-4b4f-b025-d9f3563570e5
Absolutely amazing work from all involved
Well done @leoclark.eth, it is a fun and insightful doco on Ser @benbodhi, we even popped out the 🍿!
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Well done @leoclark.eth, it is a fun and insightful doco on Ser @benbodhi, we even popped out the 🍿!
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It turned out to be a pretty interesting movie. Keeps you on your toes
It's a new movie 🍿
Title: "Everything About Lily Chou-Chou"
Director: Shunji Iwai
Release: 2001
Youth | School Bullying
I want to describe the fact that juvenile crimes that are often filmed as urban crimes are actually just trivial matters in the countryside. -- Shunji Iwai
Director: Shunji Iwai
Release: 2001
Youth | School Bullying
I want to describe the fact that juvenile crimes that are often filmed as urban crimes are actually just trivial matters in the countryside. -- Shunji Iwai
🎬Icelandic movies with beautiful scenery
🇮🇸Iceland: «Horses and People»
📸Introduction: The story is about the lives of horses and people, looking at the world from the perspective of horses, and showing the interdependence between people and animals.
💐It is a wonderful feeling. The feeling conveyed by Icelandic movies is completely different from that of the other four Nordic countries. Against the cold background, it tells a pastoral and tender story. It is a very unique feeling. Personally, I like this movie very much. I especially recommend it on weekend nights. Turn off all the lights, light a candle, cover yourself with a small blanket, and watch it quietly in the living room. It is a weekend gift from Iceland. It is very enjoyable.
🇮🇸Iceland: «Horses and People»
📸Introduction: The story is about the lives of horses and people, looking at the world from the perspective of horses, and showing the interdependence between people and animals.
💐It is a wonderful feeling. The feeling conveyed by Icelandic movies is completely different from that of the other four Nordic countries. Against the cold background, it tells a pastoral and tender story. It is a very unique feeling. Personally, I like this movie very much. I especially recommend it on weekend nights. Turn off all the lights, light a candle, cover yourself with a small blanket, and watch it quietly in the living room. It is a weekend gift from Iceland. It is very enjoyable.
Movie｜"Ivan the Terrible" (1944)｜Eisenstein
Still one of my top ten movies
The film, with its grand and dazzling scenery, modeling, photography and performance style that inherits the expressionism and does not rely on it, and dazzling expressionist lighting, has occupied an unshakable position in the entire Soviet Russian film before the 50s. In that era when the national ideology was extremely rigid and single, Eisenstein, without montage, could still continue to output his own film ideas through historical epic films.
Still one of my top ten movies
The film, with its grand and dazzling scenery, modeling, photography and performance style that inherits the expressionism and does not rely on it, and dazzling expressionist lighting, has occupied an unshakable position in the entire Soviet Russian film before the 50s. In that era when the national ideology was extremely rigid and single, Eisenstein, without montage, could still continue to output his own film ideas through historical epic films.
Movies of the Week/1
1. "The Price of Sex"
2. "The Novelist's Movie"
1. "The Price of Sex"
2. "The Novelist's Movie"
The fashionable intellectual style of Annie Hall
Maybe Woody Allen himself didn't know that Annie Hall, which he wrote, directed and acted in, was not only the only work in his film career that won him the Oscar for Best Director, but also a masterpiece in people's hearts 46 years later.
In addition to the plot and values that movie fans pay attention to, the presentation of clothing has attracted everyone's attention. He put "suits" and "trousers", which were considered "exclusive to men" at the time, on the heroine, and set off a trend of "women dressed as men" on the screen.
When filming Annie Hall started, Ruth Morley directly let Diane Keaton create at will, so the costumes in the movie were either taken directly from her closet or bought from the Ralph Lauren brand and then worn on the screen.
These dressing styles that emphasize comfort, practicality, and look extremely confident have inspired many women and set off a trend of wide-leg pants for women's professional wear.
Maybe Woody Allen himself didn't know that Annie Hall, which he wrote, directed and acted in, was not only the only work in his film career that won him the Oscar for Best Director, but also a masterpiece in people's hearts 46 years later.
In addition to the plot and values that movie fans pay attention to, the presentation of clothing has attracted everyone's attention. He put "suits" and "trousers", which were considered "exclusive to men" at the time, on the heroine, and set off a trend of "women dressed as men" on the screen.
When filming Annie Hall started, Ruth Morley directly let Diane Keaton create at will, so the costumes in the movie were either taken directly from her closet or bought from the Ralph Lauren brand and then worn on the screen.
These dressing styles that emphasize comfort, practicality, and look extremely confident have inspired many women and set off a trend of wide-leg pants for women's professional wear.
Video introduction | "The Orchard of Forking Paths"
⭐️《The Orchard with Forking Paths》⭐️
Director: Yang Xinyi
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 10 minutes
🎞️
Buried in an orchard with diverging paths, pineapples become the vehicle through which the destinies of three generations of women are connected in the absence of one father.
🍍This film is a light visual diary that traces private emotional experiences with a delicate and sensitive subjective camera. In the black-and-white image, the shadows of trees reflected on the wall and sleeping faces have a Maya Deren-style experimental film sensibility. The title of the film comes from "The Garden of Forking Paths", which is a riddle set by Borges, and the answer is time.
In the orchard with bifurcated paths, the stories of three generations of women are silently recorded.
⭐️《The Orchard with Forking Paths》⭐️
Director: Yang Xinyi
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 10 minutes
🎞️
Buried in an orchard with diverging paths, pineapples become the vehicle through which the destinies of three generations of women are connected in the absence of one father.
🍍This film is a light visual diary that traces private emotional experiences with a delicate and sensitive subjective camera. In the black-and-white image, the shadows of trees reflected on the wall and sleeping faces have a Maya Deren-style experimental film sensibility. The title of the film comes from "The Garden of Forking Paths", which is a riddle set by Borges, and the answer is time.
In the orchard with bifurcated paths, the stories of three generations of women are silently recorded.
Although we will all become adults
The first movie I watched directed by Edward Yang was "A Brighter Summer Day"
🔺After watching it, I was quite sure that this director's works are worth keeping for a lifetime. He is good at using unconventional shots to express the mystery and unknowability of ordinary people and life. Through a door, a window, and a road, we see the protagonist in the movie, just like "fate" is looking at us in the world through its eyes.
🔹So there is really nothing to introduce about the movie "Yi Yi"
🔺because it is about the life that you and I will experience more or less when we grow up. / I want to tell others what they don't know / show others what they can't see. ——"Yi Yi" 2000 Taiwanese movie🎬
The first movie I watched directed by Edward Yang was "A Brighter Summer Day"
🔺After watching it, I was quite sure that this director's works are worth keeping for a lifetime. He is good at using unconventional shots to express the mystery and unknowability of ordinary people and life. Through a door, a window, and a road, we see the protagonist in the movie, just like "fate" is looking at us in the world through its eyes.
🔹So there is really nothing to introduce about the movie "Yi Yi"
🔺because it is about the life that you and I will experience more or less when we grow up. / I want to tell others what they don't know / show others what they can't see. ——"Yi Yi" 2000 Taiwanese movie🎬
Sharing some favorite classical movies | 01
Compared to BBC or post-millennium British pastoral movies, it is more cautious, solemn and solemn in lighting, composition and scene arrangement, and the narrative is closer to literature or drama. There is no or less use of modern editing such as montage and jump cuts to achieve classicism in form and content.
▪️Death in Venice: discusses purity and pretense, the opposition between soul and flesh, the sensory characteristics and soul characteristics of art, youth, beauty and, aging and death, reminiscing about the emptiness and sadness of the passing years, and the cheerful temperament of Florence in summer. A person who has been pursuing the balance between art and morality all his life meets the ultimate beauty in this life, but when he realizes the existence of beauty, he understands that his emotional connection is incompatible with secular ethics and moral constraints. So he was covered with oil paint and sat under a parasol waiting for death.
Compared to BBC or post-millennium British pastoral movies, it is more cautious, solemn and solemn in lighting, composition and scene arrangement, and the narrative is closer to literature or drama. There is no or less use of modern editing such as montage and jump cuts to achieve classicism in form and content.
▪️Death in Venice: discusses purity and pretense, the opposition between soul and flesh, the sensory characteristics and soul characteristics of art, youth, beauty and, aging and death, reminiscing about the emptiness and sadness of the passing years, and the cheerful temperament of Florence in summer. A person who has been pursuing the balance between art and morality all his life meets the ultimate beauty in this life, but when he realizes the existence of beauty, he understands that his emotional connection is incompatible with secular ethics and moral constraints. So he was covered with oil paint and sat under a parasol waiting for death.
The plane ✈️ took God away from the world
Rome is beautiful, but life is not sweet
Those who like Rome or want to know about this city must not miss these two movies.
Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" takes the reporter as the protagonist, using his circling and enjoyment in the upper class of Rome to show the city's decadence and luxury.
"The Great Beauty", which has the same temperament, also takes Rome as the setting of the story. The 26-year-old writer Jep went to Rome with passion and made a name for himself. From 1980 to 65 years old, he gained fame and fortune, wandered around the extravagant midnight parties, and talked boring words with the equally empty upper class people.
Yes, the ancient city of Rome has magnificent buildings and solemn and quiet sculptures. But the Colosseum in the afterglow of the sunset also hints at its decline and exhaustion. With excellent scenery and magnificent soundtracks, people without vitality and passion, Rome has become a decadent city.
Rome is beautiful, but life is not sweet
Those who like Rome or want to know about this city must not miss these two movies.
Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" takes the reporter as the protagonist, using his circling and enjoyment in the upper class of Rome to show the city's decadence and luxury.
"The Great Beauty", which has the same temperament, also takes Rome as the setting of the story. The 26-year-old writer Jep went to Rome with passion and made a name for himself. From 1980 to 65 years old, he gained fame and fortune, wandered around the extravagant midnight parties, and talked boring words with the equally empty upper class people.
Yes, the ancient city of Rome has magnificent buildings and solemn and quiet sculptures. But the Colosseum in the afterglow of the sunset also hints at its decline and exhaustion. With excellent scenery and magnificent soundtracks, people without vitality and passion, Rome has become a decadent city.
On this day, 30 years ago, on October 14, 1994, the premiere of the legendary project "Pulp Fiction" took place.
This film by Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most significant films in the history of cinema.
This film by Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most significant films in the history of cinema.