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taiwanese new wave movies always felt very warm, romantic, and pro-human (not misanthropic) to me. even though the critic buzzword for all of them is "alienation." it's more like the romance of crushing loneliness... that is why i love tsai ming liang's movies. only someone with severe difficulties relating to other people despite having a very heavy heart could really understand.

the feeling of your empathy reaching out and not finding anything. the feeling of wishing someone would talk to you.
 
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vive l'amour is the most genius and purest culmination of these concepts. it is about 3 people living in the same apartment without knowing it. extreme distance despite extreme closeness. really struck me having watched it when i just moved into a dorm in the city (much closer to lots of new people) and yet was the most isolated and alone i had ever been in my entire life. the contradiction between closeness and distance makes the distance hurt even more. there is a lot more than this going on in ming-liang's films but this was what really drew me to them.
 


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