Swallow could have been a bad horror movie filled with grotesque scenes about the pica disorder. Fortunately, it was a film about self-discovery and healing. There were a couple of intense scenes about the objects that the main character Hunter swallowed, but throughout the movie the main focus was mostly on her emotional state and trauma. As the sharp objects run through her digestive system and hurt her body, on the outside she looks normal. Similarly, after the discovery of…
As a gamer myself, I am familiar with the bitter feeling I get whenever I stop playing a super immersive game after spending so many hours, and coming back to reality. It’s not caused by the desire to play more, but by a sense of disorientation, because what I thought real isn’t real any more. The idea of putting on a Shakespeare play in Grand Theft Auto (GTA) itself is hilarious and very silly, but this bittersweet and asymptotic nature…
It’s been several months since I watched the movie. It was very difficult to write about Minari soon after I first watched it. As a first generation Korean immigrant living in the US, there were numerous scenes in the movie, which conjured up my memories and emotions. Because everything felt so personal, it was difficult to even write about it.
Minari felt like a poem. The narrative was simple and the movie was not packed with dense dialogues. Instead, it…
Even though the runtime was 5 hrs, at the end I felt like I was able to watch even more. It’s a long movie but every scene is cleverly shot and very immersivr anf transformative (especially the workshop scenes). I particularly liked scenes where the characters were centered in the middle of the screen and directly talking to the audience. Watched on Mubi.
