last night, as a testament to how jumpin' beloit is, i stayed in and watched wong kar wai's "chungking express". it was beautifully shot, and the two plots were fairly loosely connected, but i enjoyed it nonetheless. i loved the shots where the cops were moving in slow motion, drinking a coffee or dropping a coin in the jukebox, and people were moving blurringly fast in the foreground. or those smeared, frozen-frame shots of whenever brigitte lin was dancing through the streets, squeezing off gunshots.
embarassingly, that's my first WKW film, i've never gotten around to seeing any of his stuff before. insert various reasons and excuses here. that will change soon, i plan on getting through "in the mood for love" and "2046' shortly. watching his film almost felt to me like i was reading a murakami book. does that make sense? he shoots like murakami writes. all dreamy and such.
while we're on the subject of interesting asian films, i'll also comment that i saw "oldboy" last week and while it certainly was violent and disturbing, i didn't find it to be nearly as shocking as i was warned it would be. don't get me wrong, some of the subject matter in the film would undoubtedly be untouchable in George's America, but i definitely thought movies like "battle royale" were much more violent (even though it's a different sort of violence, on a comic scale), especially if we're talking about blood-and-guts gore here.
*kind of a spoiler* what i found most interesting about the film was how when viewing the characters and their search for revenge, you realize that park chanwook actually misdirects you initially into thinking that the title character is the true focus, the vigilante, when in reality, the real vengeance is coming from his tormenter, as it were. *end pseudospoiler*
so. enough about asian films. let's move on to asian myspacers that look exactly like me. homeboy hasn't written back yet. clearly he's afraid of the same things that i was - what if he messages me and it gets delivered to his own inbox? creepy.
on a final note, alan braxe and fred falke can remix anything into pure genius. for an example, listen to their remix of van she's "kelly" - WOW.
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