Film and Television
A reading path arranged as a continuing series.
14 posts

Thoughts on The God of Cookery: a bowl of rice that marks a change, and breaking past appearances.
505 words
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3 minutes

Thoughts on Gold or Shit, pursuing success, and improving oneself.
699 words
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3 minutes

On Frieren’s sense of time, and whether what passes is insignificant or precious.
1011 words
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5 minutes

Thoughts on Under Current and the brotherhood of the 1980s and 1990s jianghu.
596 words
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3 minutes
Thoughts after Pandora's Box: love as a theme, smallness, and the scope of a work.
1401 words
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7 minutes

Thoughts after A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella: the value recognized only after loss, and Sun Wukong's human side.
1584 words
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8 minutes


Reflections on the manga and television adaptation of The Long Ballad
1228 words
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6 minutes

A rabbit and a prisoner: two tunnels, two kinds of freedom.
952 words
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5 minutes

The mortal-life realizations in Renegade Immortal and the secluded life in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: two kinds of mortal hearts on the path to immortality.
1588 words
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8 minutes

A film about literary romance, surface-level compatibility, and the passage of time.
995 words
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5 minutes

Starting from a video about blending with the dust, this reflects on Han Li's Dao heart, character writing in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, and letting go of the self.
2662 words
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13 minutes

