Chapter 1007: Recommend some relatively niche movies

Recommend some relatively niche movies

I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I watched the new work *Emotional Value* by the director of *The Worst Woman in the World* on the computer, which is said to be one of the hot films for this year's Oscars.

Now the Oscars' choices are becoming less and less commercially mainstream, or rather, more and more polarized. One type is blockbusters with explosive box office and certain (or shallow) artistic expression, and the other is art films from film festivals with very poor box office.

It's getting more and more different from the Oscar I learned about when I was doing data research.

But recently looking at the background comments, I saw that many friends said that when they were reading this novel, they never watched art films or art films before, but after reading this novel, they became interested in them.

I actually understand friends who can't watch art films; I couldn't watch them before either.

Even Ang Lee's *Life of Pi*, I once couldn't watch it because of the long prelude.

Until a late night in college, I finished watching this movie on the computer screen in a quiet night when my roommates were all asleep, wearing headphones.

That was a night with pouring rain, and when I saw Pi roaring at the sky under the stormy ocean, the trembling in my heart, I still remember.

Slowly, with the arrival of some opportunities, many art films/art films/dramas that I couldn't watch also entered the world. For example, *Doubt*, *The Holdovers*, and *Ikiru*, which I didn't plan to recommend this time, are all movies I have watched and liked in the past two or three years.

There is no need to force yourself to "love to watch" a certain movie, just as there is no need to force yourself to "love to read" a certain classic.

Just put them there, maybe one day, because of some opportunity in life, you can suddenly enter them and feel the power inside.

If you can never feel it, it doesn't matter.

Simply introduce a few art films that were produced relatively recently and I think are relatively good-looking, or rather, film festival-type movies.

If you are interested, you can try to watch them. Art films do not mean boring—it's just that some directors like to make them boring.

1. *The Worst Woman in the World*

It is particularly light, the rhythm, characters, development, like an essay.

From the movie title, you can see that this is about a woman who has "problems" in many aspects, not necessarily the good, likable character image we are used to.

But believe me, it is definitely not the kind of "tome-style" work that anatomizes a woman's inner world in a three-dimensional and complex way.

You can completely treat it as a *Reader* story.

You can "burn after reading," it won't burden you.

2. *Philomena*

Very good-looking.

I watched this movie in 2014.

Ten years have passed, and whenever others say that award-winning movies must not be good-looking, I want to take out this movie to refute.

In art, a long, long time ago, stories became one of its main forms of expression. ===== CHAPTER 1008 =====