I would like to see more evocative films like this about teenage escapism, with a similar abstract style, preferrably also made in Asia. I love the way this film was shot and editted. Please make some recommendations to me. Thanks.
shareBright Future by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue, those are anime films with a similar feeling and sense of alienation. Both directed by Satoshi Kon.
Volcano High by Tae-gyun Kim
Somehow this movie reminded me Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Finally I'm agree with the poster who mentioned González Iñárritu's Babel. But only the japanese segment.
This World of Ours, also Japanese. I don't think it's been mentioned yet. I also second The 400 Blows.
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Gozu.
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"What is your mother's maiden name?" What's her first name? I just knew her as Ma!
I was really enjoying reading through this post of films until i got to the end. Half Nelson is such a bad movie, completely devoid of the integrity and darkness of most of the other films people mentioned.
Anyway, I didn't want it to be the last one here.
As for movies like Lily Chou Chou, I think Kiyoshi Kurosawa's(Pulse, Bright Future, plus Tokyo Sonata looks wonderful) and Shinya Tsukamoto's(Vital, Tokyo Fist, Bullet Ballet) films are also really interesting and visceral. Something special going on in Japan man!
Just saw the closest thing to this film, made in America, called Afterschool. It's so similar in it's themes of children engulfed in the digital age, and the main character Robert plays the silent sufferer in such a similar way to Yuichi.
It's full of lingering beautiful shots akin to Elephant by Gus Van Sant but definitely invokes AALCC's silent despair, alienation and the modern youth's numbness to extremes.
Tomorrow is my birthday.
there is a similar vibe in parts of Bounce Ko Gals, but with a happier ending (in my judgment).
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