Film as Poetry: the Poetic Sensibilities of Paolo Sorrentino
Since when have filmgoers started to expect something truly artistic rather than adopted for popular interests to watch? Perhaps not long after the ongoing artistic revolution that merits personal sensibilities rather than serving a bigger goal in today’s cinematic world around the early 2000s.
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“Photography itself is like a partially immortalized and visualized bit of time, which as a collective concept is itself hardly an accurate conceptualization; and if taken in the light of personal significance, it’s also an concept invented for the societal convenience as a whole in the use of reinforcing a socio-historical consciousness to us.”
-By Tome Loulin, “Myself These Years in Retrospect, A Notetaking”, 2020.
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走过回忆的街道 ：南湖，武汉
学校的建筑，增加了几栋，但仍几乎与曾经无异，风景旧曾谙。这夏日一般的十月，我走过玻璃的幕墙边，望着镜中的倒影，体重较几年前增加了，神色间，似乎增加了几许惘然。好似这么许多年来，这南湖边，只有我体会了岁月的力量。
此方与远方：楚地的日夜
同其他小城一样，这里的日夜仿佛没有两样，静静的。春去夏至，秋去冬来，只有落下的水杉针叶述说着变迁的故事。
回顾
我问是否可以连他的音箱，他点头，表同意。那时已是晚夏，湖边的微风拂过，归去时我走在后面些，旁边有自动售水机，走进才发现灯光下都是昆虫，好在水不受影响。
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