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Reviews
Aimy in a Cage (2015)
Made me want to scribble with crayons
The director had a screening for a new directors cut at our film schools midnight cinema fest. He spoke about its influences of primal scream therapy, accelerationism and a lot of other forces shaping it from art music to experimental animation.
Whatever are its influences, the movie is dark and deep, funny and bleak, full of sound and fury. Reminds me a LOT of korean and japanese cinema. Hope to watch it again when I can process it more.
Gisaengchung (2019)
Best film I've ever seen
Had a free screening at our campus. What I like is that it could have been mean spirited at any point, but it seems to have compassion for every party involved, no matter their transgression you understand and sympathize with them. This is way different than current day films, such as Knives Out or the other nominees where the social critique involves mockery and derision of the 'villains'. I wonder if it's the difference between hollywood white privilege vs korean cinema coming from an entirely different position of the socio economic hierarchy.