Caught it at Metrograph last night. A true masterpiece about the nature of work and identity in Japan and beyond. I left thinking “maybe Sisyphus did have a choice?”
One must imagine Sisyphus happy! Recently watched this movie and I love it so much. It lead me to "Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus which I really recommend
Gakuryu Ishii, 2005.
I often spend my days staring blankly at objects in my home, or listlessly wandering through the city in hope of temporarily ridding myself of such a foggy mind. Barely a thought, much less a coherent one. I watched this today, on one of those days, and it melted into me. I've never seen a film that captures depression in such a relatable, realistic and yet serene and even psychedelic way. It really is like this, in my experience anyway.
a film depicting the everyday lives of Tahitian women as a critique of their fetishization in the painting No te aha oe riri’ (Why are you angry?) 1896 by Paul Gauguin, showing the power dynamics and the women’s ambivalence towards the outsider, Gauguin super powerful, beautiful and i really think makes u question your own relationship w “exoticism” especially as someone who has travelled to a lot of developing countries
not to be so heinously self-promotional but i wrote about the return of sincerity and how exhausting online apathy and irony has been for the last decade or so. talked a little bit about PI and why sincerity is such a defining part of this amazing community (that i'm so grateful to be a part of building). let me know your thoughts if you read it!
I didn’t go for four years now I have 4 cavities :/ getting them filled on Monday because the doctor said that if I didn’t soon one of them might need a root canal
