okay i have sm work so here are my hastily formed monkey man thoughts, definitely not exhaustive:
1. inclusion of queer people and masculinity performance: monkey man does not go for the "cishet male action hero performing for the cishet female love interest" bcs traditionally action films have been a lot of that. the hijra are the people cheering Kid on when he finally takes off his shirt and punches the shit out of a bag of rice. the hijra…
never knew that lee dohyun tying kim goeun’s blood stained white converse would fix me but here we are
anyways possession horror that isn't white christian>>> i rly enjoyed this film !! i've already replayed the scenes w the shamanistic rituals so many times bcs they were just so beautiful in a way i haven't seen before, and also kim goeun's singing was beautiful. it wasn't a perfect film and i had to read up a bit about feng shui…
it was playing on tv when i left my room this evening so i just sat there w my mother and cousins and ahhh man i had sm fun,,, i missed watching films w people. we'd already watched this film in the theatres so today we were just nitpicking and pointing out stuff that didn't even matter. and it was great, it felt v nice to spend some quality time w my cousins and i know for a fact that im going to and laugh at our jokes in the middle of the night <3
the worst kind of letterboxd s are the ones that must always compare any non usamerican movie to another non usamerican movie or a random ass usamerican movie literally shut the fuck up
like just bcs aamir khan is in this you're like "this is like 3 idiots" no it isn't shut the fuck up i'll kill you😭😭
