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Calm, almost cruel
Myrtis 2022-04-20 09:02:34
The camera is always placed outside the window or door, and is still and unresponsive, it seems to be just an observer without any subjective emotions. The audience is repeatedly reminded by the window frames and door frames not to interfere in the story, but to be an objective spectator. Hou Hsiao-hsien's camera is so calm that it is almost cruel. Also, I don't know - whether Wenqing's ability to communicate only in pen also hints at the director's aphasia in telling the story, because I don't know much about that history.
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