I haven't been so excited to watch a movie in a long time. "The Golden Gate" talks about the lowly, about poverty, about daydreaming, but it is so sacred and dignified. It's beautiful. Its rhythm is feminine, flirtatious, and it swims and dives between softness and grimness. It is a film that connects the individual with the grand narrative, connects the new world with the old world, and projects the progress of civilization. By the final shot of jumping from the main body to the group portrait, with a bird's-eye view of the crowd of people rolling forward in the milk river, I knew the film was a success.
It is worthy of success, worthy of the name of the epic. Epic, first and foremost, is poetry!
It's a Norbert Elias video!
In my mind this movie is equal to Life in the Bubble, they are both extremely underrated, but I prefer films that I can't put down. There is nothing like this in the sea of pearls.
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