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Time Jun's new column "Unpopular Films", recommended by the Time Editorial Department and the writers' private collection film list, is launched at the end of each month.
It aims to make up for the unpopular films that everyone did not have time to watch in the past one or two months, and we did not have time to write.
This issue, eight new films in private collection, collect them quickly.
"The Next So-hee"
Director: Julie Cheng
Starring: Kim Si-eun / Bae Doona / Choi Hee-jin
Recommended by - County Hao
With a suffocating realism, the film pulls back a game for the quality of recent Korean films.
"Dao Xi Ya" director Zheng Julie is another new work with a female theme eight years after parting.
So-hee, a female student who entered the Korean communications factory as an intern, committed suicide, and the policewoman Wu Youjin (played by Bae Doona) tried to restore the truth that So-hee was forced to die by the company in the process of investigating the case, but there were many obstacles.
The film highly restores the physical and psychological injuries suffered by Korean social animals, and shows the social reality of a large number of young people being squeezed by capital as cheap labor, which makes people angry and heart-wrenching.
From a non-entertainment point of view, "The Next Sohee" is the kind of movie that must be made and watched by someone.
"The Great Hero Hu Jinquan"
Director: Lin Jingjie
Starring: Hu Jinquan / Xu Feng / Shi Jun / John Woo
Recommended by – London Bridge
The most noteworthy documentary in the recent past, the protagonist is a generation of martial arts film grandmaster Hu Jinquan.
The film invites many well-known filmmakers such as Tsui Hark, John Woo, Xu Anhua, Xu Feng, etc. to interpret his works, involving a large number of film historical materials, but by no means dull.
The whole film is divided into two episodes, the first episode "The Prophet Has Come" carefully sorted out Director Hu's works and unique directorial style.
The next episode of "Broken Intestines in the End of the World" reviews Director Hu's relatively lonely later life, and the "History of Blood and Tears of Chinese Workers" that he is preparing on his deathbed can be called a major regret in the history of Chinese film.
Director Hu, presented in the documentary, is a film all-rounder who integrates writing and directing, and is also an omniscient "encyclopedia" among the population.
His quick and dashing personality looms the quacks under the shadow of the sword.
If you want to get to know him, or if you are a martial arts fan, you should not miss this documentary.
"Cocaine Bear"
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Carrie Russell / Alden Ehrenreich
Recommended by - young man paper
"Cocaine Bear" is a thriller adapted from a true story, but it is about 108,000 miles away from the truth, and brain opening is its essence.
The story can be clearly told in one sentence: the cocaine of the drug dealer fell into the forest and was sucked by the bear (the sucking bear in the real event hung up at the first time), the sucked bear began to attack humans, and everyone desperately survived.
In real life, black bears will not attack humans endlessly, and if you want to make the black blind chase like the terminator, cocaine is the best way.
Looking at this R-rated film with a different idea, it will be more fun, this is an anti-drug propaganda film.
In the face of drugs, the black bear could not control himself, abandoned the two children who were still breastfeeding, and looked for drugs all the way, Buddha blocked and killed Buddha, God blocked and killed God.
So, cherish life and stay away from drugs.
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance"
Director: Christian Mongi
Starring: Marin Grigoli / Judith Stetter
Recommended by - Fumi Minamino
After six years, Christian Mongi, the standard-bearer of the Romanian New Wave, has produced another excellent work.
The director deepens the subtle contradictions of multi-racial mixed settlement, the rural panic after the invasion of cheap labor, and the phenomenon of xenophobia derived from it.
The film begins with the male protagonist being discriminated against in Germany, but when he returns to his mountain village hometown in Romania, he finds that similar things also exist, but from Germans and Romanians to Romanians and Asian migrant workers.
In this process, the male protagonist is not a xenophobic, but under the emotional instigation of the mountain villagers, his psychology is provoked, until the final turn of the film, he finally puts the gun on the outside.
With his clean, yet critical narrative, Mungi makes "MRI" a thought-provoking concave at Romania's current social ills.
"The Umbilical Cord"
Director: Qiao Sixue
Starring: Badma / Idel / Nahoya
Recommended by - Donnie
This month's theatrical film "Lost Pearls", a Mongolian film with strong regional and national characteristics, an ethereal and vast song of the vast steppe.
It's hard to imagine that this is director Qiao Sixue's debut. Produced by Yao Chen and blessed by photographer Cao Yu, the audiovisual level of the film is close to full score.
The modern Mongolian soundtrack is refreshing, and the acting skills of the heroine Badma are extremely touching.
The umbilical cord connects the blood ties between relatives and the land of the homeland under their feet, which is both a deep love and an inescapable bondage.
Under the strange tree that is half alive and half dead, "Mom" disappears, and she reappears as the young woman in gorgeous clothes and full of pearls.
"Born Unloveable Otto"
Director: Mark Foster
Starring: Tom Hanks / Marianna Trevini / Rachel Keller
Recommended by the film - sheep and sheep
No one can deny that Tom Hanks has the most standard "good face" in Hollywood.
Over the years, the characters he created have been synonymous with warmth, kindness and reliability, but I didn't expect that in "Otto Who Is Unloveable", Tom Hanks turned into a pessimistic and world-weary "poisonous tongue boss".
This in itself is a big attraction of the movie.
In the first half of the movie, Tom Hanks tried his best to raise his face and wring out a "chuan" between his eyebrows. But in the process of getting along with the neighbors of Sheniu, the solid ice in Otto's heart gradually melted...
In the second half of the movie, Tom Hanks is still in his original form, playing a "good guy" role that he is best at, or to "trick" your tears, but isn't this exactly what the audience expects?
The film has been released in mainland theaters, but the arrangement and box office are pitiful.
Compared with the coldness of the Swedish version of "A Man Named Ovi Decides to Die", the American version of "Otto Who Is Unloveable" is much sweeter, but also more universal and warmer.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Director: Charlie Maxey / Pete Bernton
Voiced by: Tom Hollander / Idris Elba
Recommended - hidden drink
Super Healing 2023 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, based on the picture book of the same name.
Under the snowy wilderness, a lost boy encounters moles, foxes and horses in the process of finding his way home.
They rely on, accompany and encourage each other, and find the meaning of their existence in each other.
The whole film is hand-painted watercolor style, and the picture is beautiful as wallpaper. There are many metaphors about characters and stories, and there are also many golden sentences, and there is always one that can accurately move you.
For example, "love doesn't need you to be different", such as "When you feel that the big things are out of control, focus on the people and things you love in front of you!" ”
"Lucky Hank"
Director: Peter Farrey
Voiced by: Bob Odencock / Miri Enos / Olivia Welch
Recommended by Simon
AMC's new drama launched in March, starring Bob Odenkirk, the male protagonist of "Coquette Lawyer", uses a dark humorous style and a narrative rhythm of broken thoughts to ridicule the midlife crisis.
The male protagonist Williams is the head of the English department in a third-rate university, and people have long accepted their mediocrity in middle age, are absent-minded about work, perfunctory to colleagues, lose passion for marriage, and live a pool of stagnant water.
His only pleasure is to smash the idealism of his students and imagine ethereal peachy anecdotes.
Until one day, the elderly father suddenly divorced, and the responsibility of taking care of the father fell on Williams. He was forced to examine the awful father-son relationship and rethink what it meant to be a college job.
This drama is a bit like the parallel universe of "Coquette Lawyer", the theme of life flow, the dense lines and the amount of information, and the truth of society, life and feelings are all connotated.