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first frames introducing the main character in the shades of blue
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#past lives#korean film#korean movie#korean cinema#korean cinematography#cinema#cinematography#quote#film quote#drama caps
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Past Lives (2023)
Dir. Celine Song
Language: Korean, English
#past lives#2023#english#korean#celine song#greta lee#teo yoo#john magaro#korean cinema#female directors#movie screenshots#movie screencaps#film screencaps#cinema#film screenshots#cinematography: shabier kirchner
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Miss Night and Day (2024) Ep.3 dir. Lee Hyeong-Min, Choi Sun-Min
#miss night and day#netflix#kdrama#jung eunji#choi jin hyuk#lee jung eun#baek seo hoo#stills#caps#film#film stills#screencaps#screenshots#cinema#dailyworldcinema#cinemaspam#cinephile#cinematography#korean#korean drama
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Intkober day 10- train to busan!! Amazing movie!
#train to busan#art#digital art#fanart#my art#cinematography#horror#inktober#movies#horror movies#korean horror
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The Time of Fever (Ep. 1-3) visual analysis: The Metamorphosis
Ho-tae: "I woke up to find myself transformed into a monstrous insect, lying in bed"...What is this? A story about a guy turning into a bug? Dong-hee: If I turned into a bug one day, would I still be Kim Dong-hee or just a bug?
From this piece of dialogue and the cinematography alone I know The Time of Fever is going to cause me a lot of pain. The only way to describe its style is palpable.
The moment our two main characters, Kim Dong-hee and Go Ho-tae, appear together, we can see the friction and unnamed longing between them.
Notice how often the first episode uses shots with three distinct compositional layers to provide depth and complexity to the relationships portrayed on screen:
In most of these shots, the composition places Dong-hee in the background with Ho-tae on another layer completely--they're distant and never quite aligned on what they want out of the relationship. Despite how these two characters were brought together by their mothers' friendship--I love how the second screenshot uses their bodies in the foreground to frame Dong-hee and Ho-tae--it's that very connection that also creates a wall between them. Although Ho-tae is excited about rekindling their friendship after moving away two years prior, Dong-hee doesn't want to betray his aunt's trust by admitting his romantic feelings for him.
And so he recedes into the background, alone and inscrutable.
The fact that Dong-hee also compares himself to Gregor from Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis hits like a sucker punch.
Like Gregor, Dong-hee lives a sort of transient and almost functionalist lifestyle. After being kicked out of his home by his abusive father, he focuses on his school work and trying to get by. He is isolated and his queer awakening only makes him feel more disoriented and misunderstood--he feels like Gregor in his insect form.
And yet we still see moments where he allows himself to yearn for something more and how Ho-tae begins to do the same.
(Side Note: I love love love the show's use of backlighting to highlight the lines of the actors' bodies. It's so simple but intimate and erotic as if the camera is acting like Dong-hee's artist-eye trying to memorize Ho-tae's muscular beauty.)
One of my favorite stylistic choices of The Time of Fever is how it uses close-ups to represent the characters' subjective POV and desire.
Like Dong-hee's sketches, these shots are the fragments of everyday life that are so small yet feel oh so significant while on the path towards self-discovery.
They're gloriously tactile, the shallow depth of field eliminating extraneous detail, allowing us to experience the heady excitement of accidentally grazing your crush's skin or looking into their eyes during a rainstorm.
I don't think I've seen desire that achingly displayed in a hot minute.
And so it makes sense that as Ho-tae begins to undergo his own metamorphosis and understand his own feelings, we see more and more visual parallelism in how their desire manifests.
(Side Note: The second screenshot above is such a gorgeous shot. That inky black negative space not only showcases Ho-tae's gaze at Dong-hee's lips but also his reaction to the realization that hits him. Great 2 for 1.)
I can't wait to see what visual storytelling the next three episodes bring.
#the time of fever#내 손끝에 너의 온도가 닿을 때#time of fever#unintentional love story#korean bl#bl drama#kdrama#meta#cinematography
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The mirror shots are KILLING ME
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Hierarchy 하이라키 (2024) dir. Bae Hyun Jin
#lemongifs#korean drama#kdrama#kdramaedit#kdramadaily#kdramasource#asiandramaedit#dailyasiandramas#하이라키#hierarchy#roh jeong eui#lee chae min#tw blood#tw death#this drama was ok for the thriller#but the story definitely deserved better#but I did somewhat enjoyed it#I especially loved the cinematography#and the soundtrack was pretty good too
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#past lives#korean film#film#korean movie#movie#cinema#korean cinema#cinematography#korean cinematography#quote#film quote#movie quote#crying#cry
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Love Next Door (2024) dir. Yoo Je Won
#love next door#netflix#jung hae in#jung so min#kdrama#stills#caps#film#film stills#screencaps#screenshots#cinema#dailyworldcinema#cinemaspam#cinephile#cinematography#korean#korean drama#kdrama caps#cinemapix
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#past lives#korean movie#korean film#film#movie#cinema#korean cinema#cinematography#korean cinematography#quote#film quote
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Past Lives (2023), dir. Celine Song
#cinematography#film#freeze frame#cinema#movie#visual#quote#film quote#past lives#korean#south korea#korean cinema
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