When I initially watched this movie, it made me fall in love with China—at least this movie version of rural China shown. I love the landscapes, the architecture, how slow and deliberate people are, the way the poetry is narrated.
Normally I try to be sort of subjectively-objective with my logging of movies. I enjoy talking about what makes a movie work or doesn’t work, as much as I enjoy talking about my personal experience with it. With Kaili Blues, I don’t think I can be as objective as I’d want. When I think about this movie I don’t really think about the smooth editing between the long take and the rest of the movie. I don’t even think about the story of a man discovering things about himself and other people, and accepting it as it is. I just think about the love it makes me feel.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html