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[sottofalsonome]

ONE YEAR AGO i made a list of everything i hated with long, profound explanations embellished with all sorts of descriptive adjectives, curse words, the usual mix of languages (writings in my black books (to which i feel i've been referring too much recently but they're "where it's at") are only comprehensible to me due to multilinguism, wrecked

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[sottofalsonome]

it makes me incredibly happy that you would characterise something i wrote as elegant/wonderful for i am constantly frustrated by my lack of vocabulary in english/french/... - mostly english though because i've been working on it longer than on any other language. it's funny, i'll say i like romance languages, but my real solace/salvation lies in english because it makes me able to form a distance (why i'm seeking distance in the first place is something i don't presently know though

[sottofalsonome]

upon seeing it at the local film festival, 3-iron left me breathless no less - an entirely new dimension of cinema; it was then that i decided i would one day take it a step further and make a film with absolutely no dialogue at all, but so delicate that nobody would notice the absence of words.

oldboy/sympathy for lady vengeance are mindblowing, i saw the first in a theatre with maximum volume, a rape of senses - utterly brilliant, korean films have a certain raw quality to them, and not only those that deal with violence, i mean in general. i think both koreas are way underexplored in terms of 'globalisation' of their culture - for example, japanese culture is super popular outside japan while we hardly know anything about the koreas. i am in big favour of the language because it uses simple hangul instead of thousands of kanji, but the sound of japanese is to me incomparable to anything else

[myvoicewithin]

Hate is just as much part of us humans as love is. I even think that the emotions we're able to feel deeply and profoundly make us into well-rounded persons, even if those emotions are something we deem negative. I also believe that the ability of actually noticing our hateful feelings and trying to fight them - no matter if it's possible or not - is something positive. Same goes with prejudice imo. It's the way we handle those negative emotions that makes us into better or worse human beings.

[sottofalsonome]

i agree with everything you wrote and i wish there were more people like you in the world. i admire the way you handle life, its perks and its 'side effects', always did.

p.s. you know, i've been dying to propose a meeting: wednesday, 1pm, st. stephen's cathedral. wouldn't that be amazing? alas, there are so many less interesting things to be done...

[sexualmasochism]

Spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring was so breathtakingly beautiful. It could have so easily become pretentious and condescending but the way he allowed every scene to just unfurl naturally made it completely hypnotic.
Hate and love are just products of how conflicting the human nature is. To feel love I believe you also have to feel hate. How else would you know what love feels like if you did not have experience at the opposite end of the spectrum?
p.s. You mention Lady Vengeance and Oldboy but have you seen Mr Vengeance? Oh that film just cuts right through you. It's my personal favourite of Park's trilogy. It’s him at his most bleakly comic too. I adore his sense of humour and where else can you see young boys masturbating over what they assume is a woman climaxing in ecstasy but what is actually her screaming in agony?

[sexualmasochism]

Also have you seen Tony Takitani? I have a feeling you'd like it. Beautiful, beautiful film and based on Murakami's short story.

[missgamble]

You are made of awesome and because of that I won't charge you for my exploded mailbox.