*weyes blood voice* i love movies
writing for sight & sound, the baffler, tribune, etc!
when i was about 12 i went to new york for the first (and so far only) time, and we went to the museum of moving image in queens. there are lots of little details from this visit that i remember (like seeing the prop of linda blair from the exorcist and being so scared that when i went out into the hallway i thought i was going to be murdered lol) but the thing that stands out the most…
people will go to excruciating lengths to manipulate and bully you into social conformity and tear you away from the one meaningful relationship left in your life, all while telling themselves that they're doing you a favour
i think it's maybe worth saying that this film had me on the verge of tears within the first few scenes and at some point in the last half hour i was basically weeping. i'm weak to any kind of sentimental family drama, and when it's about a chinese immigrant family struggling and striving, and when the child of that family is a depressed twentysomething unable to find her place in the world... i think i would have to be…
quiet films about the small disappointments of everyday life in which people cry a lot are so important to me!!!