Ok, I have found yet another addiction to add to my movie craze. I found this website mysoju.com and it is a website with Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese movies. Ever since I found the site, I have been visiting it every day to watch television series, movies, short films etc. I like all kinds of movies except porn stuff or stuff close to porn, and am fascinated with the difference storytelling styles of different countries. I have recently been able to tone down my addiction to the Philippine movies (that was crazy, hahahhaha). I still watch them faithfully and order them from Netflix, but now I'm onto the Japanese, Korean , and Taiwanese movies.
So far I have watched only the dramas, love stories, comedies, and period pieces. I will move on to the action and documentary stuff soon. I love all the martial arts stuff , but Im not sure if I am ready for the seriously graphic action stuff of the Japanese movies. My husband brought home a "mild" action movie from a Japanese film maker and I couldn't even watch it. I was very skiddish at the graphic gun scenes and other murder schenes so I'm not yet ready for the "real" stuff, hahahaha.
I must say though that through each film I watch there is a certain level of beauty to each movie. Some movies have overly beautiful garden scenes ( i mean that in a good way), some have overly beautiful waterfall scenes or water in general, some have great use of structures, others use city life as a backdrop for their scenes and use it in a very artistic way, so I am just hooked as I can be to these films. I love colors and the use of colors in movies and I have found that so far the chinese films I watch use great color, but I dont know, alot of what Im watching now is just as great. It's really hard to stay with the storylines sometimes because Im looking at whats going on in the background of the movie, hahahahahaha.
Subtitles have never bothered me because im actually looking at the interaction of the characters, facial expressions, background scenes and movement and other stuff so a few characters splashed across the page wont make too much of a difference. Sometimes I challenge myself and watch the movies in their native tongue without the english subtitles to see if I can figure out what the movie is about and on a scale of 1 to 10 in figuring out whats going on I'm a 3, hahahahahaha. Im getting better at it though, and soon I will be a 10, hahahahaha.
I can't wait to see what country grabs my interest next in the film industry. Right now, im in the continent of Asia, hahahahaha. As a child and young adult I was into the British films and French films, so now Im experiencing the Asian film making scene. So far I like what I see. I would love to check out a film festival or two but right now Im not able to, but one day I will.
