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Ep 214: “My Blueberry Nights”

November 15, 2022

We devour Wong Kar-Wai’s “My Blueberry Nights” and discuss:


  • Music, keeping heavy moments light;
  • Cinematography, step-printing, lighting, reflections, shallow depth of field;
  • Story & Writing, the thesis and antithesis, stories of broken people, transportation as a metaphor;
  • and other such stuff and things and stuff.

We’re all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. – Wong Kar-Wai


Notes & References:
Undercranking / Step-printing
Anthropomorphize: to attribute human form or personality to things not human
MOS in filmmaking (wiki)
Sandlot “Saving it for a good time”

Tears vs Sweat: Esquire says: “The actual glands that secrete them are totally different.”; This Mandom article adds: “In fact, tears are clear blood…both of the two are made of blood”


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