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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.

[QUOTE="Moonlight-Moonlight, post: 36397, member: 6"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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