I enjoyed it as well. The scene at the end of the birthday party graded it slightly down for me. I think the wanderer…
You are very kind, thank you. 🥰
I ran across this movie on Prime recently and was intrigued. I was ready for a slower, artistic movie and this was just the ticket.
At first I thought the wanderer was what you are talking about and that could still be what the director was going for. I searched a bunch of sites trying to see if anyone knew for sure, but couldn't find anything. The drawing of Sora was what really sold it for me, a picture of his granddaughter shown only through the love of a grandfather. And if felt like she had an "aha!" moment when she saw it. When he looked at the house as he left it felt like he knew they were going to be okay. I might be reading too much into it. I suppose it's up to the viewer to ascribe meaning to him.
The treatment of the recruited student scholars sounded like it was brutal. :(
This was one of my favorites from the Nippon Connection 2021 and I've been meaning to write a review for this…
I enjoyed it as well. The scene at the end of the birthday party graded it slightly down for me.
I think the wanderer was her grandfather not only because of his response to reading the diary, but also the drawing of Sora and smacking the dad upside the head as he left. When Sora gave him the honorary gun salute he disappeared. I think she knew it was him after seeing the drawing.
I loved the monochromatic look along with the score. It gave it more of a magical feel to it which juxtaposed with the very realistic father daughter relationship was special. This one was very hard for me to rate. I thought it was well made, but certain elements gave me pause. May still bump it up in the near future when I've had time to properly reflect on it. I'm happy to have someone to talk about it too, not many people have watched it. Thank you for the flower. ^^
Same reason Everything Everywhere All at Once is not on here (as well as numerous other of her movies). They are US productions. The films have to be produced by one of the countries on MDL-HK, China, Korea, Taiwan, or Thailand. I wish we could list all of her credits. Maybe one day. :)
Worth the wait! What an amazing amount of work went into this! Good job WDH sis and all the writers. Now if someone who can do something about it would see your article and take some of those suggestions to heart. 💐💖
This sounds really good. Thanks for the review! I'll add it to my PTW. :)
This movie seems to be one people either like or don’t. After seeing its low score on several sites I went into it apprehensively. When I saw the interviews with the grown children at the end of the movie it cemented why it was made and it helped determine my score. But you might think it’s a 6. 😄
How could they change the ending??I tried to watch this a long time ago and thought the dubbing was horrible.…
They did change the ending and it was awful. In fact, they put a propaganda message for the Chinese railroad in it! No version can top the Glenn Close movie. The cast and story were stellar and mesmerizing in that one. No comeuppance for the the Marquise in this one.
I have yet to watch the second season. To be honest, I would have been okay with the S1 wrap-up. I'm happy your article is finally out. Superb job as always!
Great review, very informative, inspite of the low rating .
Thank you. ^^ Seven is not a too low a rating for me. It means average. The story and acting were below average for me and the animal killings bumped it down, but the sheer enthusiasm from the cast bumped the score up. And of course, Jet Li.
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I ran across this movie on Prime recently and was intrigued. I was ready for a slower, artistic movie and this was just the ticket.
At first I thought the wanderer was what you are talking about and that could still be what the director was going for. I searched a bunch of sites trying to see if anyone knew for sure, but couldn't find anything. The drawing of Sora was what really sold it for me, a picture of his granddaughter shown only through the love of a grandfather. And if felt like she had an "aha!" moment when she saw it. When he looked at the house as he left it felt like he knew they were going to be okay. I might be reading too much into it. I suppose it's up to the viewer to ascribe meaning to him.
The treatment of the recruited student scholars sounded like it was brutal.
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I think the wanderer was her grandfather not only because of his response to reading the diary, but also the drawing of Sora and smacking the dad upside the head as he left. When Sora gave him the honorary gun salute he disappeared. I think she knew it was him after seeing the drawing.
I loved the monochromatic look along with the score. It gave it more of a magical feel to it which juxtaposed with the very realistic father daughter relationship was special. This one was very hard for me to rate. I thought it was well made, but certain elements gave me pause. May still bump it up in the near future when I've had time to properly reflect on it. I'm happy to have someone to talk about it too, not many people have watched it. Thank you for the flower. ^^