Happy new year LC, hope you are well..
The stuff I am watching has no porn of any type and are in fact very anti porrn. It takes hours before the couples even hold hands and a kiss usually doesn't come until the end. They are so Ozzie and Harriet as to be surrealistic
Watch Descendants of the Sun, or Secret Garden, Doctor Stranger, or Secret Affair and get back to me. .And look for the themes and listen to the dialogue.
There is a tremendous generational culture war going on South Korea and indeed all of Asia. All I know is what I see in the cinema, but I have watched over 100 Asian movies now and I see the same thing repeated over and over.
I am just guessing, but it seems what has happened, is that over the last few decades the wealthy Koreans/Asian are sending their kids to American and European universities where they are getting edge of knowledge education. Then they're going back to Korea/Asia and writing and directing new movies with the sophisticated philosophical concepts of the modern West combined with the sophisticated philosophical concepts of the ancient East.
And as in genetics, we end up with hybrid vigor. I mostly watch foreign films. I always have preferred them over American films. So I'm watching films all over the world, but it is the Asian films that consistently are the most profound in my opinion.
And what I mean by profound is how an ideal society might live with regard to being happy and healthy, education, cleanliness, hard work, organization, beauty, aesthetics, politeness, empathy, humor, and general good behavior.
I know there is a seedy side to Asia, but there has always been a seedy side to the human species. So what interests me are the new ideas about social science and social structure, and how to build sweet societies for the children.
I'm watching one right now, that is so corny that I won't mention it because I have no confidence that anybody would agreel.l-lo. But it is a movie with the thesis being happiness. And it constantly makes me smile with happiness to see smart people being good to each other.
It is uplifting and gratifying to watch to see how sweet all of the people are and conducting themselves in an introspective and enlightened manner. to say one is sorry when they should be and be concerned about other people.
It is goofy and corny , but one of the most profound movies I've ever seen. We need ideals to shoot for. We need to have concrete ideas to consider and best to see then in the dynamic context of society.
It got to me and I do not suffers fools well-lol. I like profound corny not corny corny-lol. Look at the films in this country, to often so violent, just noisy action, with thin story lines that go nowhere and are a bore along the way, and no philosophy. That is Hollywood?
And I see this new age society being projected not just in South Korea, but Taiwan and Japan and Hong Kong and sometimes China and the little dragons. I spent my life searching for the profound, it is an irony that I find it in the happy smiles I see in happy families with happy children and a corny movie..
Not the intellectual nihilism of Sartre, but the uplifting aesthetics of a smiling child.
PS even the movies being made for commercial production have elements of profoundness because it seems to be a market that sells in asia. |
