More movies

Goodbye south goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao Hsian)

Four moons (2014)

Heartbeats (2010 Xavier Dolan)

Movies and last few days of Lima trip

Watched
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ken Roach

Cemetery of Splendor (2015) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

The second mother (2015) (Anna Muylaert) (Brazil)

Ciao (2008) 

The puppetmaster (1993) (Hou Hsiao Hsian)

Leslo (Jean Claude Lauzon) 1992

Undertow (Contra Corriente) (Javier Fuentes Leon) 2009

Last few days in Lima -we visited Boranco neighborhood last day and walked to the beach. The beach looks similar to Miraflores while boranco neighborhood does appear to have more people in the parks. I was having either allergy attack or cold, was not feeling well.

Movies

Tropical Malady (2004) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The name of the movie in Thai is Sud Pralad，meaning the devil in your heart, or the entangled in your mind?

Mamma Roma (1960) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

More movies about love

Heli (2013) by Amat
Disappointed.
Best director in Cannes.

Happy together (1997)
Classic.
The color.

Dust in the wind (1986)
Classic.
Need to research how he shot the film, lens, lights, etc.

More movies

Come undone (2000)
Revisiting the movie - this version is shorter, sex scene cut off
it has its style, restrained, not related, scenes don't serve obvious purpose

A city of sadness (1989)
Masterpiece.
A different between masterpiece and good movie (even great movie like Mommy 2015) is, masterpiece can be viewed year by year, but there is no great desire to view good movie again and again

The multiple-purpose use of chinese character, the mountain shot, the landscape shot (sometimes serving an internal or emotional break, sometimes serves as inner peace of the location/people), the constant shooting through doors/thresholds,  windows/doors/multiple rooms, how long does one shot take, and how thrifty he is using the close-up shots, need to study year by year to gradually understand the movie more and more...

There are many short pieces of scenes - but meaningful and important to make a masterpiece

I.E, brother injured, going back parents house with sister:
1. WS of dark mountain, brother sister going back the way they came;
2. WS of palm trees, tilt down to sister and brother walking towards parents house in the yard, camera pan, then camera moves slightly same direction of walking,
3. MS of brother/sister walking inside of the house, Mom helped brother sit down, Dad also coming in and slapped son, then said, hurry, hide here xxxx"

Three shots are simple, no close ups, but full of meaning:
1. Dark mountain, symbol of established power, how fragile single individuals are
2. Palm trees, signalling peace, but was interefered with all the chaose, home - signalling warmth
3. Dad slapping surprised everybody, a typical chinese father, then trying to get son hidden somewhere, the slapping give the audience some sort of surprise and tension, and it is realistic.

another round of movies

Prayer for bobby
Based on a true story.
More or less like a educational film.
Plain, frontal, actor, you go speak your lines

Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2015)
Great movie.
Third character (neighbor) is the key. Without her, it is plain movie

Savage grace 
Based on a true story.
Not my type of tea.

Two women (1960, De sica)

movies about mom, son, gay

watched I killed my mother, Tom at the farm, Old well (1986 from legendary director Wu Tianming)

I killed my mother - witty, funny but not too inspiring. Copied too much Wang Kar wei

Tom at the farm - story doesn't work then nothing works

Old well - finished half, produced in 1986 - the political implications...