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[FIELDWORK] ROUGE,Shek Tong Tsui

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ROUGE, Kwan Kam Peng (1988)          Yi Honglou, Shek Tong Tsui, Hong Kong The film I choose is’ Rouge ‘, created by Li Bihua and directed by Kwan Kam Peng. The film mainly tells the story of Shek Tong Tsui prostitute “Ru Hua” and Chen Zhenbang’s love was opposed by Chen Zhenbang’s family, and eventually the two people swallowed opium . The place I chose was Shek Tong Tsui. This place is the place where Ru Hua and Chen Zhenbang meet and love each other, and also promote the development of this tragic story. The film begins

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Field work: Encounters on the road/Sycamore hotel

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The place in my mind that occurs in the movie is the Dali Sycamore hotel in the movie 《Encounters on the road》The movie uses a two-line narrative. One is a series of interesting events that happened when the male protagonist, Geng went to Dali with his friend Hao after his divorce. The other one happened five years ago, Kang met Geng traveled to Dali, Yunnan after hearing Geng’s song “Go to Dali”, and eventually got married with Geng. At the beginning of the movie, Kang intends to divorce Geng. From the conversation with the lawyer, it can be known that

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[READING RESPONSE] PAMELA ROBERTSON WOJCIK

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  This article identifies various features of the apartment plot as well as taking up numerous case studies through the panoptic spectrum of the apartment plot as a critical tool for analysis, evaluating the significance of the apartment plot associated with the different genres.   The writer believes that the apartment plot is not just merely a setting, instead, it configures the narrative in certain ways. It inspires me to have a contemplative thought in accordance with the role of the apartment plot. Not only can narrative be expressed via dialogue and verbal communication, but it also can utilize the

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[FIELDWORK] TEN YEARS – EXTRAS, CLASSROOMS

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Ten Years 十年 – Extras 浮瓜 (Kwok Zune, 2015) Ten Years is an anthology film composed totally five films. The story’s background is set in the year 2025 and mainly discusses the autonomy of Hong Kong from the aspects of culture, human rights, and politics. The film I chose is “Extras”, directed by Kwok Zune. The story takes place in a school building while the plot is about the government officials creating a planned assassination on two leaders of political organizations in order to arouse the public’s panic so that the National Security Law can be easily legislated. There are two

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[FIELDWORK] Echoes of the Rainbow, Wing Lee Street

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Echoes of the Rainbow [Dir/Scr: Alex Law] (2010) In the search for a distinct post-colonial identity, Hong Kong-ers, imbued with nostalgia, turn to architectural phenomena that showcase the transient journeys of their city from a bygone era. Amongst the ever-changing high skyline, fleeting moments are littered throughout the city, anachronistic cracks that show Hong Kong’s rich past and journey from a fishing village to an urban idyll. A genre-based on this premise, “Nostalgia Cinema” has been prominent in the Hong Kong film scene since the 90s. A paradigmatic example is ‘Echoes of Rainbow,’ a winsome, elegiac tale of a family

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[FIELDWORK] THE LAST EMPEROR, THE FORBIDDEN CITY

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THE LAST EMPEROR, DIR. BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI (1987)            The Forbidden City, Dongcheng District, Beijing Pu Yi and his brother were running at the Tianhedian Square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony while a long line of eunuchs and attendants was chasing after them for protection. Scenes from The Last Emperor 1987, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The Last Emperor is a historical epic film recording the whole life of Aisin Juero Pu Yi, who was the last imperial ruler of China. It has two timelines in the form of half flashbacks and half inserts to

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[FIELDWORK] CHUNGKING EXPRESS, CHUNGKING MANSIONS

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS,  WONG KAR WAI (1994) Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong This is the building that Brigitte Lin entered at the beginning of the film. Built-in 1961. The film consists of two stories about two frustrated men and women, how to get rid of their past love and start a new life again. The film embodies the eternal themes that director Wong Kar-wai is concerned with loneliness and the alienation of people. The characters in his films are always trapped in the past, unable to see the future, and unable to grasp the present. This is also reflected

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[FIELD WORK] PARASITE, SEOUL

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PARASITE, DIR. BONG JOON HO (2019) Seoul, South Korea Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, was released in May 2019. Parasite shows the greed of human beings and social status disparity in the form of wicked and brutal human behavior, focusing on two families living in extremes. Since the characteristic of the Parasite itself has a symbiotic relationship with the human, the movie parasite depicts this parasite relationship between the affluent Park family and the destitute Kim family. Poor Kim family infiltrates the lives of a wealthy Park family as their new employers such as tutor, driver, and helper by

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[FIELDWORK] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III, BANK OF CHINA TOWER/ XITANG

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III, DIR. J. J. Abrams (2006)  The Shanghai Bank of China Tower/ Xitang, Shanghai Paramount Pictures released Mission: Impossible III in May 2006 in the United States. It is the third installment in the Mission: Impossible film franchise. The movies are based on an imagery organization called IMF (Impossible Mission Force), which sends its agent to save the world from villains. The protagonist is Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise), one of the IMF agents. At the end of the previous movie, Hunt ‘has retired from the field work’ and became a coach of the new recruits. The

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[FIELDWORK] LOST IN TRANSLATION, TOKYO

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LOST IN TRANSLATION, DIR. SOFIA COPPOLA (2003)            Tokyo, Japan Lost in Translation is an American comedy shot by Sofia Coppola in 2003. The story tells of two wounded souls from America who meet in Tokyo – the neglected young wife of a photographer and the washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial – finding an odd solace and pensive freedom to live their lives. The movie is primarily set in Tokyo, Japan, plus somewhere in Kyoto. The first and most important spot is the Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel located in Shinjuku. This is where the

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