kind of all over the place
I gotta see this movie in Chinese when I go back to China later this month bc the whole time all I could think about was the Chinese beaver
(side note: I think the Very Online leftists are misinterpreting this movie because I thought it was a really nice and cute representation of how to channel righteous anger towards community / power building)
10 minutes into the movie the theater operator announced that the 3d wasn’t calibrated correctly so it felt like i had cataracts when i put the glasses on. but they kept playing it for another hour before shutting it off and telling us we would get refunds. so i’ve seen a blurry version of half the movie and let me tell ya, james cameron has done it again
I usually can’t stand movies that are ~a love letter to cinema~, but the scale of this one (temporal, spatial, visual language) drew me in. It attempts to cover so much ground - 20th century china, the history of film, Buddhist sensory exploration - and mostly succeeds. The only segment where I thought the movie might collapse under the weight of its own ambition is the second (the train station). In an early cut of the film, it was much…