Movies I’ve Seen Lately! (May 2024)
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- A little late on this one but hope y’all enjoy this monthly movie round up video! I love doing these cause it refreshes my memory of the wonderful variety of films that I see every month.
Introduction: 0:00
Love and Pop: 0:23
Raise the Red Lantern: 9:29
Fish and Cat: 14:15
Goodbye Dragon Inn: 20:25
The Happiness of the Katakuris: 24:10 - Фільми й анімація
Love and Pop: 0:23
Raise the Red Lantern: 9:29
Fish and Cat: 14:15
Goodbye Dragon Inn: 20:25
The Happiness of the Katakuris: 24:10
Got the chance to see Raise the Red Lantern on cinemas in my town. Loved it a lot, still gotta see more from Zhang Yimou (have seen a few of his films and the ones that i did i either liked or loved). I think The Happiness of the Katakuris is an spiritual remake of another great korean film called The Quiet Family (the non-musical one), but the Miike one holds it's own identity.
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Hey some of these were my recs!
Have in mind that to add chapters to the video you have to add a "Introduction 0:00" at the beginning of the timestamps on the description
Great tip dude thanks! Had no idea!
Saw Katakuris recently and loved it. Wish it wasn’t so expensive to buy
I want to recommend Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto as a great one I watched recently
I also thought One Cut of the Dead was also cheesy and amateurish until I got to the halfway point and by the end I loved it
I’ve seen both Kotoko and One Cut of the Dead! Both great films! Tsukamoto is such a dark and boundary pushing filmmaker. I’ve loved everything he’s done that I’ve seen so far! One Cut of the Dead was a rollercoaster. I thought it was kind of awful in the beginning but once the context was revealed I fell in love with it. It turned into such an oddly wholesome experience. I actually have a review on that one if you ever wanna check that out.
@@TheMisfitPond I will for sure!
Will appreciate if you add the poster/name/director/year of the movie beside you when you are talking about each movie
Unrelated, but what are your thoughts on after hours?
I actually have a review for After Hours! But briefly, I thought it was great! Entertaining cautionary about desperately trying to get laid lol
I saw Raise The Red Lantern ages ago. Years before I understood the systems and before my addiction to Asian dramas. I had no idea what it was about and felt bored. This was back in the nineties and i was thirtyish and not really knowledgeable about Chinese history. All this to say that I think I would like and understand it better now. There were very few dramas where the concubines worked together against the unseen male figure. I got into Chinese dramas after I was already hooked on Japanese and Korean dramas and soon learned to like them although my annoyance with the patriarchy made it a kind of conflicted love. The heroine trying to get some aloof man...well it made it all seem that it was okay for these rich men and kings to be so dang entitled. I think my favorite concubine dramas were Yanxi Palace and Story of Minglan. Everything else is a blur of perfect women triumphing over other women to get the stupid man who somehow was dissatisfied until our perfect heroine arrived. But a few years ago, the Chinese government got so annoyed with all the dramas with competing concubines (they said it encouraged pettiness, scheming, and immoral competition among women for powerful men) that they commanded the filmmakers and TV folks to stop making competitiveness among wives and concubines be the main issue. Thank heavens. Am not a fan of censorship, whether it's BL, Fan wars, politics, showing poverty, showing wealth, or scheming concubines, but sometimes some of these censorship dictates do tone down some of the trends I'm tolerating. I think I saw Thanks for the reviews.
Thank you so much for sharing your extensive thoughts with me! Yea I will admit that Raise the Red Lantern does focus mainly on the competitiveness of the women to gain the man’s attention. But it’s not necessarily there for entertainment purposes that resemble soap opera-esque level of drama and satisfaction. It’s there to express the reality of entrapment and despair of the oppressive patriarchal lifestyle that forces women to hate and harm each other. So I’m not 100% sure if you’d enjoy it more on rewatch but I’d still say go for it.
@@TheMisfitPond yeah. i'm not sure if there's anything else going on in it. If i recall, it was around the Ming Dynasty. So there might be stuff about the falling of the Chinese monarchy and the class system. Not that modern Chinese rich guys don't have their concubines and mistresses but the Chinese government tends to allow movies that show how great life is now that communism has taken over. So there might be some contextual stuff there (Subtexts etc) to show how horribly decadent nd useless the rich landowners of the lost monarchy was before Mao and the Revolution fixed everything.