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cute and happy story

poucas coisas na vida são tão homoeróticas como escola exclusiva e time de esporte e esse filme decidiu juntar o melhor dos dois mundos.

o tempo do filme é relativamente curto mas é uma história tão divertida que você não percebe que o tempo tá passando. é muito bom ver um filme que tem seus dramas mas a felicidade dos personagens é o principal foco. você vibra com os personagens e fica tão aliviado que as coisas dão certo. foi uma experiência muito legal! os personagens são uns amores e o romance entre as personagens principais é um abraço quentinho

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it's about friendship and fellings one deal with.

the goes like starting in school two girls becoming bff and later they discover and faces misunderstanding and this lead him to a part after realization they get together but the fortune has another plan by making haeun die at the age of 27 in her prime age after giving birth to her daughter. the movie is whole a emotional and has happy sad ending along with happy ending at glance it may feel like bullshit but as the story developed it becomes more intense. which make the viewer to bring watery eyes. it's sweet, dark, fun, love, hope, drama, sad, happy, delight, sorrow, thrill,

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Well choreographed fight scenes

In some scenes, I felt like I was watching through the eyes of the charcoal ? you have to watch to understand what I mean.

If not for the story, stay to watch the fight scenes that were excellently choreographed. The very end scene with the sword pointed at Prince Qi's neck was awesome.

The story is good too. It has a nice ending and it didn't disappoint. Production's hard work is evident in this movie from scene sets, props, lighting, and wardrobes. Everything were done well to help tell a vivid story.

One beautiful scene was the dancer performing beautifully during a siege and not stopping complete with a smile kn her face.

The synopsis made it sound simple and boring but it is far from it.

I recommend for costume and period viewers.

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Could have been edited better

Pack some patience when watching

Multiple stories of different characters wasn't shown relevance with fluidity.
There's a scene that was repeated.
The transition of scenes weren't smooth.
To surmise, it's a chaotic way of telling the story of demons who take over human bodies and are openly living in society but being hunted by demon hunters/alchemists which do not make sense to me.
A man who was saved by the cat he took care, sold her out. His reasoning was absurd and the story showed him as someone who cares for the cat, even stealing fish for her. So sending her to her death out of the blue didn't make sense.
This could have been a good fantasy movie if it was directed and edited well. Best part of the movie is the fight scene between the demon cat and alchemist.
The set scenes were great and wardrobes used were beautiful. Production did a great job in this aspect. The ending credit song is nice and sweet.

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Spoiler : + adopted from a book with same title by Zevin

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac,” as Zevin explains on the first page/( line in case of movie) is, above all, “a love story. And like most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma.” Naomi must choose among three guys who represent different visions of love: Ace, a handsome tennis jock who offers her a seat at the popular table; James/ Yuji , a brooding misfit who sports suicide scars and offers an alternative to the life she finds so alienating; and devoted Will/ Mirai , her best friend and fellow yearbook nerd, the one best positioned to offer her the real Naomi.

By having Naomi lose her memory all at once rather than little by little, Zevin highlights the role forgetting plays in shaping a life. “Dad nodded and patted me on the hand, and then he read my mind. ‘You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned — the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and the Pythagorean theorem. You especially forget everything you didn’t really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you’ll forget those, too. You forget your junior-year class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend’s home phone number. ... You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.’”

PS : the ending in movie was too rushed , and Yes At last Naomi chooses to go with her bestfriend Mirai as her Lover.

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Multiverse of emotions

Another Korean movie with two titles, one in English (Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors) which makes no sense to me and the other Korean (Oh! Soo Jung) which describes much better what kind of movie this is. Despite everything, I think it's hard to have the right expectations for this movie. It is an art film with a serious mature theme, made in black and white, centered around conversations between the main protagonists and long, awkward kisses. I found the film interesting to watch due to it being arranged like a mosaic so that every 5 minutes we have a temporal or dimensional jump in the story, so in the end we get the same story told in two versions and with different conflicting emotions so that in the end we don't know what is true and what is subjective, what is true and what a lie. Are men really in love with "poor" Soo Jung, is she even honest with them a bout her virginity? What actually happened? Which version of the film, if any, reveals the truth, or is it just different subjective perceptions.

Although the film has some entertainment value, I found it uncomfortable and difficult to watch, especially because of the static and overly long kissing scenes. It was as if I had become a voyeur. It is still positive that the characters seem like real people and we can empathize with their emotions and concerns.

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Beautiful yet depressing

This is a n art film, with beautiful extremely symmetric aesthetics. Like most artistic films it has a bunch of kind of boaring moments and while there is a lot of scheeming going on it is kind of meeh, but we do get to see a young educated woman get worn down, slowly slowly she is worn down to know her place as a the fourth mistress in household where all aim to please the master as that pretty much is the only option for surviving.

A movie that shows very well how little woman where worth and how expandable they are...

While I the sound of this drama is a torchere for the ear of those who do not love Chinese opera, once things the last 10 minutes of the movie made it all worth it, yes even the opera part was put in to place and it was just a perfect ending to this beautiful yet depressing story...

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Cute and Funny but made no sense

The series is funny and light hearted. I enjoy the over the time drama at times and it does make me laugh with the things that make no sense either, but this was a bit more horrible then the first part of the series. I get they kind of wanted to give you more about the after but there was to many empty moments that made no sense and things were missing in the storyline that never explained. Sadly this was a downer and once again to many love triages that just get boring and repetitive. I go enjoy the actors but some time its way over done, and god to I hate the dumb yelling throughout the series. I love Maki and Haruta together and they have a sweet chemistry but hate the conflict what makes no sense and still never really showing the relationship love I always hope to see, always looks like bromance. Haruta is to kind with everyone where it looks like is is always flirting with everyone. Justice character made no sense but to show traits that Maki had in ways. I guess its meant to be over done but sadly fell short and lost its way. to many things made no sense even the beginning with Maki walking in on his guy in bed with another one, like really he want from straight to now trying to show him gay and sleeping with another guy. This is beyond ridicules at times. I was hoping for more with the growth of there relationship in stead got everyone playing out of character and not for the better. I do enjoy the actors and what they bring but once again felt no real love or growth of the characters instead they all make no sense and come apart.

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A piece of epic film history.

Dark sky, gray shadows moving across the ridge. Akira Kurosawa could get top marks for Seven Samurai just because he created the legendary war scene where a troop of soldiers ride over a hill on their way to the battlefield, or because he wrote side-long backstories about each leading character and made an intricate family tree over the 101 villagers. This is an epic mammoth film, but today perhaps best suited for cineastes.

The plot is simple: Japan, 16th century, feudal society - It's sweaty, dusty and bloody, especially if you're a peasant. The population of the small mountain village is constantly subjected to bandit attacks, especially in the fall after the year's harvest. The men in the village therefore decide to hire 7 samurais to protect them from the horrible miscreants. The first man to stand up is the wise Kambei, who later hires 6 more ronin. Is this incredibly exciting? Absolutely, if you're willing to spend 3.5 hours watching dramatic Donald Duck-clad men laughing at jokes no one else understands. But if you want to see who combined it first: Slow motion + young woman falls in love with young fighter + group of heroes helping each other + men on a hill, this is where you should turn.

Just the intro is a 3-minute long explanatory text passage accompanied by pompous taikos. But hold on. From the first scene you are struck by the astonishing photo. Akira knew how to use the black/white format to the max. Small details such as the characters' patterned kimonos increase the nuances and make each frame attractive. The director recorded each scene with dual cameras in order to have a larger selection of images when editing. It's noticeable, because it's a fantastic variety of angles and perspectives. Some images are so beautiful that you could frame them as individual photographs. I especially fell for the contrast of the white daisies against the dark tree trunks. The sound effects and music are also interesting. I laughed out loud towards the end when the young woman whistled for a full hall. There are creaking hinges and humming men, but it never becomes blaringly loud, instead the music and sound effects stay in the background and act as a mood setter.

Although the film is, according to some, the first drama-action film, Akira has had his heart in the right place. Unlike now, the heroes aren't nerve-smooth and pumped with anabolic steroids. Here, the men have lovely round bellies, wrinkles and they actually cry when their pals die. The masculine lies in their enormously pent-up sexual frustration and that around every corner there seems to be a woman in distress with a crying child in her arms. The young woman who has a fling with the young wanna-be samurai is the only girl who has lines. I have full respect for that because the movie is from 1954. What scares me is rather the realization of how little the genre has developed since then: Braveheart, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven.

Just the comparison between this and more recent drama-action films makes me understand how big an influence it must have had. Not only because it is innovative but also because the story is emotionally driven. The atmosphere breathes gloom. The only thing I miss are characters that develop this way despite Akira's solid preparatory work with the portraits. It's only the funnyman Kikuchio who undergoes a major change. Despite the massive playtime, I never get a chance to go deep with a select few. Therefore, I don't really get emotionally involved in how the villagers and samurais are doing. This also applies to the dark forces that move around the village, the bandits, they have no face. They are more like a brutal, black shadow that thunders forward and devours everything in its path.

Despite its few flaws, it is still incredibly well made and interesting from a film historical perspective, but I think it takes a cineaste to really appreciate it. If you like to Google everything about the film after you've seen it, to create an overall picture and be able to put it into context, then you're the right audience.

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First step in a career in favor of LGBT people

'Boy Meets Boy' is a South Korean short film of romantic, musical, youth and LGBT+ themes, premiered at the 13th Pusan ​​International Film Festival in 2008, and since then it has given a lot to talk about for several reasons: it was the first film work by Kim Jho Kwang-soo, the first collaboration between this filmmaker and the screenwriter Min Yong Keun, and presented for the first time Min Soo and Seok Yi, two characters that he would return to the following year to form the wedding couple of the short 'Just Friend?', also following up Min Soo in Love 100°, another short of his authorship, from 2010.
Since then, the South Korean filmmaker showed signs of taking his time to weave the story with the thoroughness that has always characterized him, working like a craftsman in his eagerness to recreate every detail.
The director of 'The New Employee: The Movie' (2023) has spent almost two decades building an authorial block of unusual quality in the history of South Korean cinema, full of triumphs and very few mistakes. Throughout his work he has not only made important films, series and short films, but through them he has known how to rewrite the history of his country anchored to its most recurrent film themes and objectives: such as sexual awakening, most of age, sexuality, gender identity, being queer in a heteronormative and discriminatory society towards LGBT+ people and activism in favor of the rights of this group to which he himself has acknowledged belonging since 2006.
To film the short, he based it on Min Yong Keun's script of the same name about a love crush, in a festive and magical way. The film, without spoken dialogue, describes the relationship between Min Soo (Kim Hye Sung), a boy who loves photography and is gay, and Seok-Yi (Lee Hyun-jin), who seems a little tough but still manages groom to show your soft side. It also tells us about the indecision when it comes to expressing feelings and the need to be brave and go in search of love when it has arrived at your door.
Despite its short duration and the incorporation of music, dance and a magical fantasy, the viewer manages to maintain the common thread of the story in that elegant background of love at first sight.
At one point in the film, Kim Jho Kwang-soo, wang-soo, who collaborated with director Lee Song Hee Il to produce 2006's 'No Regret,' considered "the first real Korean gay film," and has shot others gay-themed works such as 'Two Weddings and a Funeral' (2012), 'One Night Only' (2014) or 'Made on the Rooftop', and the BL series 'The New Employee', introduces a fantastic character in the form of a fairy which comes to represent Min Soo's thoughts as someone who falls in love for the first time.
Despite not having dialogues, the filmmaker manages to make the audience identify with his characters, in addition to clearly establishing the relationships between them, through looks, gestures, expressions, body language and useful inclusion of the fairy (Yeh Ji-won).
The fairy symbolically represents the thoughts and feelings of the boy who has just discovered love for the first time in his short life: the nascent passion, the sexual awakening, the discovery, the acceptance, the insecurities, the fears, the worries, the fears, excitement, enthusiasm, innocence, naivety, and expectation, all in a mixture that explodes in unison.
With a palette of bright, festive colors, and corny and strident music to identify the fairy, but restrained and romantic to enhance the mood of the characters and set the tone of the film, the director guides us towards the discovery of love and sexuality in a new and unique experience for the character.
Of an autobiographical nature, the director himself stated that he based the story told in 'Boy Meets Boy' on his first love experience.
I liked the chemistry of the two protagonists, palpable from their first meeting on the bus. They are both adorably acting actors whose performances are enough to recommend watching the film.
Also highlight the use of Min Su's film reel as a symbol of love and life, by first representing the union of the two protagonist boys, and then serving as an invisible and conductive thread that, in constant movement, like life itself, unites all the characters.

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lento mas necessário

decidir rever este daqui após assistir a distance place é meio funny saber que apesar de um ser baseado no outro, os dois seguem caminhos distintos em que:
his; tristeza -----> felicidade
a distance place; felicidade ---> tristeza

sobre his é muito bonito o jeito que a história se constrói. é um desenvolvimento lento porque ele precisa ser lento. existe um processo de cura e perdão entre os personagens que é necessário que as coisas não sejam apressadas. tanto na relação shun-nagisa e nagisa-rena não existe um lado certo, são pessoas com sentimentos reais e nem sempre as coisas são fáceis mesmo. todo o sentimento de medo, acolhimento e amor que se passa aqui é muito reconfortante, nem sempre as pessoas vão lidar bem com o que você é mas os sentimentos de pertencimento a algum lugar em conjunto com o acolhimento são definitivamente uns dos melhores que existem.

p.s. eu gosto muito de como o Japão consegue fazer cenas extramente aconchegantes, me senti parte da família.

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"Darkness makes me nervous"

If you threw some David Lynch and Wong Kar Wai movies in a blender along with the mood and palette of Blade Runner, mixed them up and threw them on a canvas, you would get a psychedelic Jackson Pollock work of twisted dreams and reality battered with ear and eye piercing sound and colors titled, Call for Dreams.

“Every act of recording transforms the present into memory.”
Eko runs an ad in the paper soliciting a Call for Dreams. She receives messages about people’s dreams on her cassette answering machine. If she chooses the person, she helps to reenact the dream, much like a call girl only without the sex. Somehow the dreams shared and reenacted become intertwined with reality. Or do they? There is a fine line between dream and dreamer, reality and alternate realities, perhaps even sanity and madness.

“There is no ‘real’ anymore. You choose to act in a reality of your choice.”
The world Eko resides in is eternally dark and raining. Blue and pink lights follow her juxtaposed with pungent greens and yellows, and pops of retina damaging reds. City nightlines are showcased as she hurls through brightly lit tunnels. The music, colors, and movements twirl surreally as in a dream state. Only when the camera focuses on a police officer in Israel does it appear anchored in reality and then like a puff of smoke, the reality changes.

“People want to remember events, not necessarily in the way they happened.”
Is the film about dreams, reality, or memory? Only director Ran Slavin knows for sure. If you are in the mood for a mind tripping, illusion of reality and dream, this might be one to try. Keep in mind, “Is the dreamer dreaming the dream or is the dream dreaming the dreamer?"

11 April 2024

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Interesting but not very good

The lesson behind the movie is actually quite meaningful. Teaching you to love yourself and also to appreciate everything you have - from the biggest to the tiniest details of life. However, the movie is just not great. I am sure all the actors and actresses did a great job and hard work bringing this movie to life, however, it still did not really bring the entire movie to life. There are various gaps here and there. The little touch of Alice in the Wonderland is also quite interesting, but not good. The song written by the male lead in the movie is very nice though. Really love that song.

Darren Chen as bad boy in this movie, so not nice lol. On the contrary, quite the turn off for me.

Rewatch value, for me personally... I won't go for a 2nd. Was a nice to watch the first time, that is about it.

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