A Film And Lit Lover

A Film and Lit Lover is all about books and films. Started as two blogs (Quoting Quotes and A Young Film Critic), it showcases must-read novels and must-watch films! Other than posting quotes from literary works, it also reviews films of every genre.

One-Second Film Review: Richard Glatzer and Wash West’s The Fluffer (2001)

Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash West

Producers: Victoria Robinson and John Sylla

Screenplay by: Wash West

Starring: Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, and Deborah Harry

At first, I thought it was just all about sex. It surprised me, because this film has depth. If you want to know what happens behind the pornographic lens, watch this film.

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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.

Lemony Snicket (via langleav)

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One-Second Film Review: Leesong Hee-il’s Huhoehaji Anha (No Regret, 2006)

Director: Leesong Hee-il

Producer: Kim Jho Kwang-soo

Screenplay by: Leesong Hee-il

Starring: Lee Yeong-hoon and Kim Nam-gil

A beautiful portrayal of a struggling young gay Korean man and his persistent admirer. Great performance by Lee Yeong-hoon.

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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are the ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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…the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes. A man with closed eyes is a wreck of a man.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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…transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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The first betrayal is irreparable. it calls forth chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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…love was not an extension of public life but its antithesis. It meant a longing to put himself at the mercy of his partner. he who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication… it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine—to dream about things that have not happened—is among mankind’s deepest needs. Herein lies the dager. If dreams were not beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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The heaviest of burdens is…simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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…the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.

from Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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Currently Reading: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistress and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel, Kundera’s first since The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel “the unbearable lightness of being” not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Currently Reading: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistress and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel, Kundera’s first since The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel “the unbearable lightness of being” not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

One-Second Film Review: Takeshi Yokoi’s Takumi-kun Series: Pure (2010)

Director: Takeshi Yokoi

Producers: Takeshi Katayama, Kazushi Miki and Mika Nakamura

Screenplay by: Hiroko Kanasugi (based on a manga by Shinobu Goto)

Starring: Ryoma Baba, Naito Taiki, Hamao Kyosuke, Daisuke Watanabe, Takiguchi Yukihiro, Mitsuya Ryou, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Hirose Yusuke

I find this the best among all five films of the Takumi-Kun Series. The weird thing is, this film concentrates on two other relationships and not on the Gii/Takumi story. Moreover, Takumi and Gii are just supporting characters here.

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One-Second Film Review: Takeshi Yokoi’s Takumi-kun Series: Pure (2010)

Director: Takeshi Yokoi

Producers: Takeshi Katayama, Kazushi Miki and Mika Nakamura

Screenplay by: Hiroko Kanasugi (based on a manga by Shinobu Goto)

Starring: Ryoma Baba, Naito Taiki, Hamao Kyosuke, Daisuke Watanabe, Takiguchi Yukihiro, Mitsuya Ryou, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Hirose Yusuke

I find this the best among all five films of the Takumi-Kun Series. The weird thing is, this film concentrates on two other relationships and not on the Gii/Takumi story. Moreover, Takumi and Gii are just supporting characters here.

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One-Second Film Review: Takeshi Yokoi’s Takumi-kun Series: Bibou no Detail (Details of Beauty, 2010)

Director: Takeshi Yokoi

Starring: Hamao Kyosuke, Watanabe Daisuke, Takiguchi Yukihiro, Baba Ryoma, Bishin Kawasumi, Akaba Mio, and Saito Yasuka

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