Millennium Mambo

i think there’s something deeply painful about how hou hsiao-hsien captures disconnection without yelling about it. vicky’s relationships are abusive in a way that it is just slow dissolves of selfhood. and that’s harder to name. harder to leave. it’s almost controversial to say this, but this movie isn’t about love or even heartbreak but i personally think that it’s about the boredom of being stuck, emotionally and physically. and god, that’s a much lonelier kind of prison. it’s like watching someone trapped in the wallpaper of their own life, and the only way out is to lose who they are completely. this film was beautiful and i felt generally happy (i know, insane right) after watching it