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Kulturkampf · #1

I am such a sucker for sentimentle and overly emotional film.

I was reading the description for the Korean film 고양이 부탁해 (Eng title: Please Take Care Of My Cat), and I saw the cover of some carefree folks running, and a story about a group of friends coming of age and drifting endlessly apart from each other but still loving each other (think of Chingoo minus gangsters and with a female cast, it sounds like). I almost shed a tear in anticipation for this film.

Sometimes, throughout the day, I visualize my favorite scenes from movies, and it is at thos moments I know I can overcome anything...

When the heroin plays the piano at the end of No Regrets For Our Youth, when Takashi Shimura sings at the bar in Ikiru, when the hero kisses the girl in the car in Unknown Pleasures, when Antoin Doinel explains to the psychologist why he stole the typewriter in The 400 Blows, when Choi Min-shik reads the letter in Failan and when the heroin watches the scene from Joan D'Arc in My Life To Live etc. ad nauseum.

These scenes encourage and comfort me, and they inspire one to live on new levels.

I am going to keep watching films because nothing moves me more in the world.

If you could only watch ten movies in your life, at this point I would say these are the ten movies that will teach you what you need to know:

(1) Ikiru
(2) Failan
(3) No Regrets For Our Youth
(4) The 400 Blows
(5) Unknown Pleasures
(6) My Life To Live
(7) Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, And Spring
(8) Postmen In The Mountains
(9) Grave Of The Fireflies
(0) I Stand Alone

I think about these films often.

In a way, they define the human soul.

I think that if someone were to truly watch these ten films and think about the things happening and the profound beauty therein... they'd become better people. I think I am a better person for having seen them.

executioneer · #2

why are all your posts ten paragraphs long, dude

Fathom Zero · #3

Because he wants to be clear and concise with everyone, he puts thought into his posts, unlike many other people. It is an admirable quality.

Anyway, I used to like sentimental, chick flicks, but they lost their appeal. All of them are the same. A film doesn't have to be non-violent or something like that to be deep and describe the human soul, movies like Falling Down do the same.