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Lao Shi (2016)
a bleak but brilliant tale of indignation and revenge
Sometimes random events can turn one's life upside down dramatically. A taxi driver accidentally knocks down a man on a bike and reluctantly carries him to the hospital only to learn that his ordeal has just begun.
what happens next illustrates the callousness of insurance companies, the kafkaesque bureaucracy at work and the taxi driver begins to lose everything one by one, including his sane mind. what begins as an act of good deed turns into a nightmare for the do-gooder. the film is a gritty illustration of the complexities of human reality that not every good act ends in reward or redemption.
Sekigahara (2017)
Expected more but too lengthy and too slow burning
I expected a lot from this movie. but i was disappointed with so many aspects. you have to really pay close attention to the narrative because there were so many characters crammed in that i found it difficult to keep track of who was who.
the build-up to the climax was very slow and you would need a lot of patience for a movie which is 2 hrs 30 mins. when it came, the climax was anti-climactic as far as i am concerned.
the best thing about the movie is the cinematography. lush green bamboo forests, the scenery are visual delights and deserve extra stars.
Rotten (2018)
boring, uninformative and waste of time
I really wanted to like this doc. there were some really big issues in the food industry that need to be exposed. however, i was utterly disappointed by how episode after episode, the documentary looked at the wrong issues.
this documentary might as well be produced by american govt in collabration with american companies. In the episode on Chicken, there was no mention of the problem of antibiotics in chicken at all.