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EDWARD YANG RETURNED TO TAIWAN AFTER STUDYING IN THE US, AND FOUND A SOCIETY RAPIDLY CHANGED BY NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM, URBANISATION, AND MODERNITY. HE MADE THESE TRANSFORMATIONS THE HEART OF HIS CINEMA, EXPLORING HOW CITIES (MAINLY TAIPEI) SHAPE PEOPLE, THEIR RELATIONSHIPS, EMOTIONS, IDENTITIES, AND WAYS OF LIFE.

MASTER OF CHARACTER LAYERING. HIS FILMS RARELY FOCUS ON A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL; INSTEAD, THE FILMS GIVE ATTENTION TO ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS OF CHARACTERS, CAPTURING THEIR INTERCONNECTED EMOTIONS, CONFLICTS, AND INNER LIVES...

WINDOW SHOTS, SHADOWS, FRAMES WITHIN FRAMES, AND REFLECTIONS ARE NOT JUST VISUAL CHOICES IN HIS WORK. EACH OF THEM FUNCTIONS AS A STORYTELLING DEVICE, ADDING MEANING AND EMOTIONAL DEPTH BEYOND WHAT IS SPOKEN.

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@Cinema_vault7 Ben Affleck in just Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, had so much aura all combined... Others as movie were too good.

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@ScreenVibe_X @OlaitanSugar7 @Babangiida1 @MkulimaKante It is a crime if you see Peter Dinklage and don't think of the OG...

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@Glowreyahupdate All are great, but RDJ is the first action hero who uses his brain to win fights. Downey completely reinvented the character. It was pure fun watching him.

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@SceneOrbit Great picks.. Already watched a few, will definitely cover all!!

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@thevyrovisuals '25th Hour', I tweet about it whenever I get the slightest chance! It is among my Letterboxd favs. It is highly underrated, but has brilliant performances from Edward Norton & Phil Hoffman, & the moving storyline!

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ONE OF MY 4 FAVOURITE FILMS OF ALL TIME, ALTHOUGH I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MORE THAN TWICE , CUZ I FEAR I'LL FIND INACCURACIES IN IT. PLUS, IT’S A VERY EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGING FILM AND I DON'T WANT TO OVERWHELM MYSELF!

ANYWAY! I DETAIL THE BTS FOR EACH OF THE BELOW POINTS.

"FUCK YOU MONOLOGUE" TO "SPIKE'S BIG CHOICE SURROUNDING 9/11", TO "NORTON'S NUANCED PERFORMANCE" AND "THE RAVEN REFERENCE".

READ THE THREAD, AND YOU WILL GET IT. (DON'T GET OVERWHELMED BY READING THIS THOUGH, HAHAHA)

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@GRCinemaTicket Dead Poets Society

Williams delivers a performance of generations. "O Captain! My Captain!" still brings me to tears every time.

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@Okoliemeka_ One Cut of the Dead

This might be the best if you want crazy plot twists...Posted about it:

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DID YOU KNOW “ONE CUT OF THE DEAD” EARNED 1000 TIMES FROM ITS BUDGET AND BECAME THE HIGHEST GROSSING FILM IN 2018.

At 1st watch, the film looks like just another low budget zombie flick clumsy acting, awkward silences, shaky camerawork a 37-minute single take that’s more chaotic than impressive.

But on the 2nd watch, one can notice that the film itself as one of the most skilled fully layered, and surprisingly heartfelt.

Unwrapping the details of those awkward scenes, to the real life story of the struggling director, and the sweet family moment hidden under all the zombie chaos. (1/5)

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@Gibboanxious Denzel Washington as Malcolm X. It’s his career-defining performance.

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@_idkV_ My blind recommendation is always Edward Yang’s Yi Yi. It’s a gentle, 3 hour film that captures the entire human experience through one family. More thoughts on it:

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“YI YI” (2000) BY EDWARD YANG IS THE "COMPLETE" CINEMA!

Almost all films extend beyond their lead, exploring supporting characters and their arcs. However, Yi Yi, makes a fundamental benchmark: supporting characters are not secondary but essential, forming a complex, interconnected tapestry of modern life where no emotional thread is ignored. Edward Yang removes the idea of a singular protagonist altogether; instead of following one arc, we witness an entire collective, where every character holds weight, pushing character exploration far beyond conventional storytelling.

With so many characters, the film constantly shifts our perspective. And this feeling doesn’t come just from the writing or the dialogues by Edward Yang, it comes from how the film lets us observe. Mainly by how the film is shot, framing moments through doorways, windows, and reflections.

That’s what makes Yi Yi so rare, it makes you wonder how writing can even reach this level, how a film can hold so much without ever feeling overwhelming.

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@MTGraveStudio Artificial environments, situations and performances, where it could have been made way more realistically!!

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@filmfr4me It's the absolute cool of it all!! Wong Kar-wai & Christopher Doyle have both done some magic in this film. The frames, the shots and the mood all put together will drive us into a different world! Posted abt it:

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THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF LONELINESS IN FALLEN ANGELS!!!

Fallen Angels is like a sister story to Chungking Express, but it’s not really a sequel. When I watched Chungking Express first, I learned that Wong Kar Wai had written it during some chill time while he was frustrated with shooting Ashes of Time. And since Fallen Angels didn’t fit in the time period or story, he made it as a separate film. I’ve always loved it when directors drop references to their own previous movies, and Fallen Angels feels more like a déjà vu of Chungking Express, not because of the storyline, but because of all these tiny details that echo it. Things like the secret lockers, the Chungking mansion, the number 223, and the idea of expiry dates all call back to the earlier film. On the whole, Wong Kar Wai's movies define love in this hopeless, almost impossible way, but he does it in a really sensitive and weirdly poetic style.

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@TheCinesthetic Any day I would cry watching movies where children play the main characters and the suffering is shown through their lens!!

Grave of the Fireflies
Bridge To Terabithia
The Florida Project

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@Itz_zayyad1 Robb Stark and Talisa, it is!! Both didn't see that coming, and it happened all of a sudden and brutally, else all somehow knew how it was going to be..

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@AlexTran677026 Sure shot...

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@travellingsoot True!! The thing is, every frame and shot felt essential, which leads to the final act of the movie, we know the weight and cause of the events... It would feel even more intense when u learn it was based on real events Yang experienced. Posted abt it:

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A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) BY EDWARD YANG IS BUILT ON A DEEP IRONY!

Anybody who sees the title “A Brighter Summer Day” would probably expect something warm, maybe even nostalgic. Usually, when we hear about "murder cases," we think of them as shocking events that happen to other people, far away from our own lives. But Edward Yang brings those events close to us.

Yang presents us with a different world, a world defined by fragmentation and displacement. He forces us to inhabit the psychological claustrophobia of the characters & their surroundings, we witness how a society, a family, and even a school can slowly shape a person’s life in ways we don’t always notice.

We will begin to realise what it might have felt like to be part of those lives, in those moments, in a way that feels uncomfortable, but real. All these are carried in a dark atmosphere throughout, which makes the title feel deeply ironic.

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@glennmassari Edward Yang’s Terrorizers is a total masterpiece! That ambiguous ending still occupies my mind. He captures modern urban alienation perfectly!! Posted more thoughts abt the movie:

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“THE TERRORIZERS” (1986) BY EDWARD YANG WAS MADE JUST TO ACCUSE THE BAD IN PEOPLE!!

This could be the most difficult film to sit through by Edward Yang, and it is deliberately crafted in a way to confront the ugly truth. The way people can casually hurt each other, the way we justify our own selfish actions, and how sometimes the same unfair things that happen to us are the very things we end up doing to others.

The most uneasy part is that every character, no matter how different they seem, carries some shade of that darkness. There’s no clear line between right and wrong here, just people making choices, sometimes selfish, sometimes careless, but always human. And the film keeps reminding us that it’s part of all of us in some way.

Even visually, it felt like Yang was constantly observing from a distance through windows, reflections, and darkness. There’s a kind of quiet poetry in how he frames everything. The way the visuals do as much storytelling as the characters themselves.

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@jinchenyyds Not just the falls, all three main characters' destinations and whether they reached them or not or how they reached them, everything had a hidden meaning in Happy Together. We covered abt that in our reading, check it out:

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ARE WE GOOD OR LIKE IN ‘HAPPY TOGETHER’!!!!

Ever seen a couple break up a million times and still get back together, or are you the couple who says, “let’s start over”??

Then this film is for you, “Happy Together”.

Happy together??

Who is happy together? Are they really happy together??

These were the questions running through my mind before I pressed play. If you want a direct answer, for those who haven’t watched it already, I won’t give it right away. I’ll let Wong Kar-wai break it to you when you watch the film.

You know, when you stalk someone on social media, you start knowing them quite well. Likewise, I’m getting more familiar with Wong Kar-wai through his films. So I didn’t walk into this with dramatic anticipation or huge expectations of seeing a happy couple. In Happy Together, actually, in most of his films, you don’t watch to see the plot unfold. He simply introduces you to these characters, lets you sit with them during a particular phase of their life. And if you wonder about their past and future, he leaves it to your imagination.

Here, it’s Lai Yiu Fai, Ho Po Wing, and Chang. Even without full explanations, even when things remain unsaid, we still connect deeply with them. They could be anyone in your life, someone you know, someone you once loved, or sometimes, even you. Let’s look at two major techniques he uses to bring emotional depth into this film.

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