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Crawford 2022-04-21 09:03:30
Leave the branch with the wind
How many kinds of world images can a film contain and how many kinds of emotions it can display and reconcile. "City of Sadness" seems to be testing the audience's unbearable burden. This may be biased. Hou Hsiao-hsien returns to that era in a visual way. Jianghu flavor, market flavor, gunpowder...
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Aida 2022-01-26 08:45:44
Sad City - Looking at Taiwan's Past and Present
Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness" begins with Emperor Hirohito's edict of surrender and ends with "Easy to Shou in the Mainland". I think Hou Xiaoxian is not a politician. Maybe he just wants to use the times as the background, and he wants to describe the people and events of the times,...
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