Dear My Life

  Header illustration for the film review essay of Perfect Days (2023). Illustration created for editorial movie review purposes. 💭 Short Personal Reflection Perfect Days (2023) left me sitting quietly after the credits — not with an answer, but with a question I hadn't thought to ask before. What if a perfect day is not the one where everything goes right, but simply the one that begins again? Hirayama wakes, folds his futon, waters his plants, chooses a cassette tape. He does this every day. And watching him, something in me slowly loosened — the assumption that a life worth living must be building toward something. Perhaps attention itself is the destination. Perhaps the day that simply begins again, without fanfare, without resolution, is already enough. 🎥 Film Overview Director Wim Wenders Release May 23, 2023 (Cannes); December 22, 2023 (Japan); February 7, 2024 (USA) Runtime 123 minutes Cast Kōji Yakusho (Hirayama), Tokio Emoto (Takashi), Arisa Nakan...

  Header illustration for the film review essay of After the Storm (2016). Illustration created for editorial movie review purposes. What if a single night, endured together, changes nothing—and yet leaves the air somehow different? 🎥 Film Overview Title After the Storm (海よりもまだ深く / Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku / "Even Deeper than the Sea") Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Release May 21, 2016 (Japan); March 17, 2017 (United States, limited) Runtime 117 minutes (1 hour 57 minutes) Genre Drama, Family Screenplay Hirokazu Kore-eda Country Japan Language Japanese Cinematography Yutaka Yamazaki Music Hanaregumi Production Company Fuji Television Network, Bandai Visual, AOI Pro Distributor GAGA Corporation (Japan); Film Movement (US) Rating Not Rated Cast Hiroshi Abe (Shinoda Ryota), Kirin Kiki (Yoshiko Shinoda), Yoko Maki (Kyoko), Taiyo Yoshizawa (Shingo), Lily Franky (Kôichirou Yamabe), Satomi Kobayashi (Chinatsu Nakajima), ...

  Header illustration for the film review essay of Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). Illustration created for editorial movie review purposes. What if the parts of us the world never quite accepted were never the problem to begin with? 🎥 Film Overview Title Fried Green Tomatoes Director Jon Avnet Release December 27, 1991 (limited); January 24, 1992 (wide release, United States) Runtime 130 minutes (2 hours 10 minutes) Genre Comedy, Drama Screenplay Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski (based on Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ) Country United States Language English Cinematography Geoffrey Simpson Music Thomas Newman Production Company Act III Productions, Avnet/Kerner Productions Distributor Universal Pictures Rating PG-13 Cast Kathy Bates (Evelyn Couch), Jessica Tandy (Ninny Threadgoode), Mary Stuart Masterson (Idgie Threadgoode), Mary-Louise Parker (Ruth Jamison), Cicely Tyson (Sipsey), Chris O...

Header illustration for the film review essay of Inside Out (2015). Illustration created for editorial movie review purposes. What if the feelings we most want to escape are the very ones that hold us together? 🎥 Film Overview Title Inside Out Director Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen (co-director) Release June 19, 2015 (United States) Runtime 95 minutes (1 hour 35 minutes) Genre Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama Screenplay Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley Country United States Language English Cinematography Patrick Lin (Director of Photography) Music Michael Giacchino Production Company Pixar Animation Studios Distributor Walt Disney Pictures Rating PG Voice Cast Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Bill Hader (Fear), Lewis Black (Anger), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Kaitlyn Dias (Riley), Diane Lane (Riley's Mom), Kyle MacLachlan (Riley's Dad), Richard Kind (Bing Bong) Box Office $858.8 million worldwi...

  Header illustration for the film review essay of Miss Granny (2014). Illustration created for editorial movie review purposes. If youth were granted again, would we truly walk a different path—or would we discover that who we are persists beyond the face we wear? 🎥 Film Overview Title: Miss Granny (수상한 그녀 / Soosanghan Geunyeo / Suspicious Woman) Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk Release: January 22, 2014 (South Korea) Runtime: 124 minutes (2 hours 4 minutes) Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama Screenplay: Hwang Dong-hyuk, Shin Dong-ik, Dong Hee-seon, Hong Yoon-jeong Country: South Korea Language: Korean Cinematography: Kim Ji-yong Music: Mowg, Han Seung-woo Production Company: CJ E&M Distributor: CJ Entertainment Rating: 15+ (South Korea) Cast: Na Moon-hee (Oh Mal-soon, 74-year-old), Shim Eun-kyung (Oh Doo-ri, 20-year-old Mal-soon), Park In-hwan (Mr. Park), Sung Dong-il (Hyun-chul), Lee Jin-wook (Han Seung-woo), Kim Hyun-sook (Ae-ja) Box Office: 8,656,417 a...