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‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ REVIEW: On Devoting Oneself to Faith and Slow Cinema

For a film about faith and questioning, I think it’s quite ingenious to use the medium of slow cinema to convey its themes because, in a way, there are a lot of commonality with each other in the sense that you have to be ready to embrace both, and you are willing to listen. And one can’t really force either, you have to devote yourself to it.

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‘Suzume’ REVIEW: Shinkai as a matured storyteller on the tale of collective grief

Suzume is a sincere and poignant exploration of humanity's collective grief amid a tragedy. Despite some shortcomings on its story, there’s just something incredibly moving about a young teenage girl making an effort to stop a major tragedy and the deaths of others when she has already suffered the worst tragedy of her life. For once, a Makoto Shinkai film that feels cathartic and soulful.

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‘Return to Seoul’ REVIEW: On Dealing with Cultural Conflicts and Identity

Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul is an engrossing character study on identity and what it means to belong, cycling through the inner serenity and restless intensity of oneself, full of multitudes, incredibly evocative, and admirably purposeful. While it may be meandering and confused at times, it is a journey worth taking.

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