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When Nina wins free airline tickets, she leaves her dingy apartment and part-time factory job in Yamato City, Japan for Singapore with her friend Su.
Tourism
2018 Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki
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This really took me back to being lost in a variety of foreign cities, having a huge bust-up with my best friend on our holiday from hell in Mongolia, walking aimlessly on rainy nights, and just generally having experiences in my life that weren't always fun or enjoyable at the time but have absolutely stuck with me since and that I'll always look back on fondly – or at least be glad I remember them so vividly. Big mood.
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what do you call a docu-fiction hybrid that is presented like a raw youtube vlog, set in an entirely real environment, but directed (loosely scripted) and bookended like a fictional film?
what limit is there to film anymore even? (s/o tmdb)
the camera (and sound) goes from professional to what must be a phone once the film essentially plunges into 100% guerilla style. kicked off by an utterly magical airport segment where the sun shimmers in every shot, theres soft piano music, aspect ratio changes, rly as if you're watching an idol vlog or something. they are in an actual airport, now they are in an actual plane. and no one around them is part of the movie.
i'm putting…
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This is one of those rare occasions where "boring" isn't necessarily a criticism. There must be a word for that sense of aimlessly filling time when away on holiday somewhere by just wandering around. It's not boring, it can be enlightening, but for someone like me who's always got things to do, it can feel a bit aimless. Pleasant, but aimless. (Some might say: relaxing.) This film allows us to watch two young women doing exactly that, and when you're not experiencing it first hand, it is kind of boring, but in that same pleasant way.
If nothing else, it's a nice travelogue of Singapore, the place where friends Nina & Su have decided to go for free following a lottery…
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Lost in tourism. Vlogging, or is it really a vlog? Stylistic sudden dips in sound quality. Sudden dance to trap beat music. The fading light show; the fading alienation. Nothing too bad happens, but everyone from other places is here, let's talk to them no matter what.
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Fait dans le cadre d'une exposition (Specters and Tourists) le film est moins évident prit hors de son contexte de fabrication (la réalisation "iphone-style", différente de son film précédant, fonctionne tout de même avec l'idée du film et de ces deux protagonistes découvrant Singapour (décidément un lieu qui revient souvent cette année). Le film laisse moins sa marque que Yamato (esthétiquement et émotivement du moins) mais on voit tout à fait la continuité des thèmes que le réalisateur développe dans une oeuvre encore jeune mais cohérente.
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Going overseas to go nowhere. That Miyazaki shoots in such guerrilla fashion only makes it all the more alienating, a camera in hiding as its subjects try to immerse in a culture devoid of its context.
It's very much a go-with-the-flow affair, the structural vanity explorations of tourist attractions and war memorials abstracted as the cultural gap leaves them as little more than waterspouts and tall buildings. But once the urban sprawl divides the pair the mundane surrealism of the every day takes hold, confused-yet-carefree vibes floating through a foreign land.
Not entirely my thing but the dance breakdown alone makes it worth a watch.
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Welcome To Singapore
I went into Tourism completely blind and the only reason I even added it to my watchlist was because I fell in love with the poster... sometimes adding a film to your watchlist just because it's poster looks awesome works out great, don't judge me I have added movies to my watchlist for far less forgivable reasons.
What starts out as a chill hangout movie eventually turns into an anxiety fuelled nightmare when Nina looses sight of Su and ends up lost and alone in Singapore. Nina only knows a few English words and no Mandarin so we spend a long stretch of the film following her through the noisy streets of Singapore as she trys to…
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Vacation in the age of mass surveillance. Not particularly exciting or even emotionally incisive, but there’s a lot of mileage gained from the small town tourist awe and the guerills shooting style, which combine to suggest a sort of invited voyeurism and acceptance of passive documentation even in these people’s most intimate moments. That doesn’t make this feel scary, but it does make it extremely modern.
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I have spent way too much tonight time trawling the Internet trying to find that Elvis t-shirt even though it totally isn't my style.
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I appreciate the casual vlog style, the lightness this film hopes to achieve and eventually succeeds in. I can't help but feel like I've fallen into a tourist trap, which is very fitting for Singapore I guess. The two leads are great and I will watch every sequel nonetheless.