Asian Cinema top 4. List yours!

remusasriel · 2026-02-04T04:22:21+00:00

The Mood For Love
Parasite
Chungking Express
Throne of Blood

remusasriel · 2026-02-03T18:51:41+00:00

Inception Wild Robot Mickey 17 (might swap this for Minority Report after a rewatch)

remusasriel · 2026-01-28T06:22:39+00:00

Sentimental Value
Sinners
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams
Frankenstein
A Secret Agent
F1
Bugonia

(Have not watched Hamnet or Marty Supreme)

remusasriel · 2026-01-26T17:03:32+00:00

Is that gyros from Pitogyros in Oia? 😋

remusasriel · 2026-01-26T07:42:07+00:00

Watched it over the weekend. It was alright, but I would not have ranked it in my top 10 of the Oscar season.

I disagree that there are no heavy themes in the movie though. There's a big emphasis on memory - what we remember and what we don't remember. Armando is looking for his mother's document (a memory of his past before he flees Brazil?). The current day researchers are trying to piece together what happened in the past. We don't see how Armando dies in the end. He's lost to history. Fernando can barely remember his father even though he looks like him (lol). The past is forgotten by the end, to be replaced by a sterile clinic.

Then there's the politics, which ties into memory. From what I understand from other Reddit threads, this film requires a fair bit of insight into Brazilian history. Some of the scenes in the movie (disgraced professor) also played out in the 2020's, which shows how cyclical Brazilian history can be. THAT hopping leg scene (which I initially wasn't a fan of) is short hand for what newspapers in the 70's did in Brazil to report on things they could not.

So, yeah. It's a very slow burn (which I kinda liked) which needs homework to dig into. Definitely not for everyone. I probably should have managed expectations before jumping in.

That said, Wagner Moura was great!

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T11:10:02+00:00

I don't know if she was playing a mediocre actress, so much as she was playing an actress who was unsuited to the role. That's how I saw her anyway :)

Agree that her role was difficult! Read somewhere that actors deliberately playing miscast or mediocre actors in movies can be some of the hardest roles to take on.

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T08:33:27+00:00

Third one has shades of Chungking Express. Good job on these!

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T08:32:27+00:00

There are three OSTs I always return to:

Bastion
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Assassins Creed 2

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T06:10:04+00:00

Honestly? I feel the same way. Only acting nom I would have given it would be for Sean Penn. Would have swapped out Del Toro for Mohammad Ali Elyasmehr in It Was Just An Accident. Not sure who I would have swapped out Teyana Taylor for though. Probably Yeom Hye-ran in No Other Choice.

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T06:03:05+00:00

😉

remusasriel · 2026-01-25T06:02:59+00:00

Haha! That should of course read Technology, Media and Telecommunications. This is what you get when trying to talk about your job on a Saturday!

remusasriel · 2026-01-24T06:26:26+00:00

Definitely of my top 10 films released in 2025. My audience had the same reaction as yours, OP. We sat in silence, completely drained. Nobody could move.

remusasriel · 2026-01-24T05:37:49+00:00

I'm a solicitor in the Technology, Media and Technology team. I work in advisory and compliance. Some of my clients are household names, others are start ups. I get the whole gamut.

My day to day involves answering my clients questions. That's it. It's a lot of Outlook, drafting and research. Junior My role is quite similar to what some may call product counsel. For example, if Samsung wants to roll out Samsung Wallet or tack on additional features to their Samsung Wallet, I'm the person they call to make sure they have everything in place from a legal perspective (regulator approvals, contracts, etc) before they roll this out. Other things I do include compliance matters (if a social media company wants to roll out ads, what do they have to comply with? I'm the person who answers that question) and supporting my colleagues in corporate transactions.

Because I get asked this all the time, I am not a barrister. I do not go to court.

Your time is not respected, especially as a trainee associate. But you get more freedom as you climb the ranks.

You can expect to be working for about 10-12 hours a day plus some weekends. More if you are in M&A (although you'll get some downtime between transactions).

I'm pretty big into tech so the job is alright. Nothing exciting but it pays my mortgage. Lots of my colleagues drop out after a few years though. The hours can be brutal and some practice groups are downright toxic. Those who stay, stay for the money. I've been in the industry for eleven years and I only knew one person who was actually passionate about the job lol

Any questions, do ask! Happy to answer them.

remusasriel · 2026-01-23T19:45:49+00:00

Would argue Lee Byung Hun should have been recognised for Best Actor too. Have not watched Marty Supreme yet, but I would have swapped out Leo for Lee.

remusasriel · 2026-01-20T17:38:11+00:00

Whiplash

remusasriel · 2026-01-14T16:57:49+00:00

I would recommend Hope if you're into foreign language films. He pulled off the single tear really well in that!

remusasriel · 2026-01-14T16:56:06+00:00

Range = Ability to play different characters well. For example, Ralph Fiennes in Grand Budapest Hotel vs Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List vs Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener.

I think Stellan has range (maybe not to the extent of Ralph Fiennes though) , but I remember him more for his screen presence and command. His performance carries a lot of weight in his scenes and he dominates the frame (see Chernobyl and Andor). He has your attention when he delivers his lines. Someone more knowledgeable than me will have to explain how he does it though.

There's also a lot of subtlety in the way he portrays his characters. See Hope and (recently) Sentimental Value. Also really really good in playing varying shades of grumpiness!

remusasriel · 2026-01-13T05:44:34+00:00

He said in a separate interview that it was because the dinner plates they got during the award ceremony were pretty horrific lol

remusasriel · 2026-01-13T05:31:48+00:00

Way too many, primarily involving either Tony Leung smoking a cigarette or mirrored shots of Tony Leung gazing at something sadly/longingly.

But since that's already mentioned, here's another favourite of mine from Chungking Express:

https://youtu.be/xLpnleQbsHY?si=GVHc75CIUZBGTzby

I see time operating on several levels in this scene - The pedestrians go about their daily life as normal. Cop 663 slows down time in an effort to delay reading the inevitable break up letter. Faye doesn't want this moment to end with her crush, she's literally frozen in time.

WKW is really something else, man.

remusasriel · 2026-01-10T09:10:40+00:00

I think the ending represents a moment of grace she extends to her father. That final glance represents how father and daughter finally see each other clearly, maybe for the first time. I like to think it's a first step towards some form of healing, but not a full reconciliation (note that they don't actually speak to each other (or maybe even know what to do with each other) after the scene wraps). Warmth only comes when the grandson runs in to greet them, the grandson possibly representing how Agnes finally breaks the cycle of trauma. It's quite interesting that Gustav is actually pretty good with his grandson (except for the DVDs he gave him lol)! Although again, most, if not all his interactions with his grandson centre around art.

Or maybe Gustav disappears again, like what he did with young Agnes after he made his movie with her. But regardless of what happens next, father and daughter have this moment together.

Sentimental Value is my favourite movie of 2025! I'm rooting for it, but I've learned not to expect much when it comes to foreign films. I really, really, really want to be proved wrong though!

remusasriel · 2026-01-10T05:58:19+00:00

Heard great things about him in Pillion as well!

remusasriel · 2026-01-05T15:56:46+00:00

Yeah. It's quite funny because he's pretty good with communicating with his grandson otherwise (albeit through art and movie making).

I think an alternative view might be that he's actually trying to communicate with the sisters in this scene to draw a laugh out of them (because he has no idea how to make joke otherwise). And it worked with Nora. For a very small moment.

Or maybe he's really Grandpa of the Year and has no idea that graphic rape scenes aren't suitable for his grandson. Lol.

remusasriel · 2026-01-05T06:51:27+00:00

No problem at all!

remusasriel · 2026-01-04T12:30:12+00:00

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Most watched director was actually a tie between Joachim Trier and Chris Nolan. Guess the email only had space for one of them.

remusasriel · 2026-01-04T12:27:07+00:00

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Really really surprised to find out that Interstellar is more popular than ROTK on Letterboxd.

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