Just like a writer/director/editor to imagine an afterlife where everyone is forced to recreate a memory by being an executive producer on their own short film. 

Some lovely sentiments about how the greatest meaning in life can come from what you mean to others (see The Wizard telling the Tin Man “…a heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others”). But predictably, what’s most interesting to me, is how this is a movie about movies.  And how they can sometimes be even more real than reality because of the way memory is an unreliable lie based on emotion anyway.

Not my favorite Kore-eda film formally, but maybe the most inviting concept that asks for your own introspection.

Just like a writer/director/editor to imagine an afterlife where everyone is forced to recreate a memory by being an executive producer on their own short film. 

Some lovely sentiments about how the greatest meaning in life can come from what you mean to others (see The Wizard telling the Tin Man “…a heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others”). But predictably, what’s most interesting to me, is how this is a movie about movies.  And how they can sometimes be even more real than reality because of the way memory is an unreliable lie based on emotion anyway.

Not my favorite Kore-eda film formally, but maybe the most inviting concept that asks for your own introspection.

I'll choose not to choose

I'll choose not to choose

I love the concept of this but I didn’t really feel too connected with the characters. So I felt like the emotion didn’t really hit as much as I wanted it too.

But going back to the concept I think it’s so cool. The whole thing of looking back at moments in your life to try to find the best one and most people realizing that their favorite memories are the mundane ones. Like yeah I definitely resonate with that. Even in my own work I feel like every concept in my personal projects that I really care about is inspired by something small I experienced that I didn’t think much of at the time but now that I look back at these moments they matter so much to me. Anyways blah blah blah. 

I also thought this was cool bc like it felt like a documentary half the time

I love the concept of this but I didn’t really feel too connected with the characters. So I felt like the emotion didn’t really hit as much as I wanted it too.

But going back to the concept I think it’s so cool. The whole thing of looking back at moments in your life to try to find the best one and most people realizing that their favorite memories are the mundane ones. Like yeah I definitely resonate with that. Even in my own work I feel like every concept in my personal projects that I really care about is inspired by something small I experienced that I didn’t think much of at the time but now that I look back at these moments they matter so much to me. Anyways blah blah blah. 

I also thought this was cool bc like it felt like a documentary half the time

angel beats was this right? phenomenal plot, this shit took IQ - proximal frontal lobe thinking. analogical reasoning. How much RAM you need to run this, AI scaling laws ts. But there was something there cinematographically like the last bit of the toothpaste.

angel beats was this right? phenomenal plot, this shit took IQ - proximal frontal lobe thinking. analogical reasoning. How much RAM you need to run this, AI scaling laws ts. But there was something there cinematographically like the last bit of the toothpaste.

what I love most about Kore-eda is that you can tell just how much he loves human beings

what I love most about Kore-eda is that you can tell just how much he loves human beings