Emptiness which movie

This is where the blurred line of reality and fiction is drawn, and as the movie continues, this line completely vanishes. Caden has many interpersonal issues and broken relationships along with his physical ailments, so as the introverted artist that he is, he makes a sort of an inner conversation with himself, which throughout the movie gets externalized into his theatre drama.

His play becomes his life, and this is the ultimate goal of any artist — to capture life itself, or rather to incarnate reality and truth. This shows us that every experience we have, and every meaning we attribute to life, dissolves in time, thus resulting in an inevitable death. Caden struggles to find meaning to the very end when he proclaims that he has a new idea for the play, and then suddenly the director tells him to die.

It is a dark but poetic take on life in all of its depths. Selma the main character is a hard-working immigrant who suffers from a degenerative eye condition, and is a rather childlike character. Selma is a martyr-like figure, because she desperately tries to channel her innocence upon the cruelty of this world. This results in a two-genre movie: a musical, which consists of her wondrous day-dreaming, and a melodrama, which is a reflection of the raw reality in which she lives.

Death is the final destination of this depressing, yet musical journey. It is not to be viewed if you are not prepared to feel heavy depression at least for a day. Everything is shown in the beginning, as the character Ken Park shoots himself on a temple while smiling enthusiastically.

After that, it follows the lives of four teenagers who were in one way or another acquainted with Ken Park. A short film about a frustrated ex-family man traveling alone through space, after a nuclear catastrophe on earth, desperately seeks human contact, before he lets it all go.

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Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more. While there is currently no shortage of films tackling the migrant experience, Emptiness adopts a perspective which is less commonly explored: that of the Chinese migrant to South America. That said, the narrative of exploitation and vulnerability is all too familiar. The result is the kind of persuasive but unpolished portrait which should connect with festival audiences but might struggle to assert itself beyond the circuit.

The most accomplished performance comes from Fu, who brings a bit of sass and confidence to the character of Lei, who has no reason, as yet, to doubt that her dream of making a new life in New York will come to fruition. Sharp-witted and kittenish, she charms every man she meets, including the rather slippery Chang Da Day Min Meng , the man who will arrange her onward journey. If it suits him to do so.