Chillerama
This is a simple story, yet with complicated emotions and subject matter. The relationship between the story and the film is always a subject matter that interests me. Other than the common film langu…
Chillerama
This is a simple story, yet with complicated emotions and subject matter. The relationship between the story and the film is always a subject matter that interests me. Other than the common film language, is there any other way of telling a story? Cotton is losing herself gradually, losing the threshold of being one single Ego and thus opening herself to other spirits. In the process of losing her individuality, there has been no fear, only a pleasant sensation with the guilt of peeping instead. —Anonymous In a farewell ceremony for a friend of the family, Keening Woman (Cotton) acts abnormally because of the Spirit, Ling. Her body and her consciousness are separating. Different memories, consciousnesses, identities and actions are lingering inside Cotton, which collaborate the unusual relationship between herself, her lame boyfriend and her psychiatrist. There is the one body, in which Cotton and Ling connect with each other spiritually and which leads them wandering the Luo Feng Mountain. There is water flowing downstream, which constitutes different scenes and imageries, delving into the consciousness. It presents something that is beyond substance. It returns them to the nature and begins an indescribable journey of Chinese ink painting. Cotton and Ling are opening a door, into a situation that entering another world. In an emotionally unmooring and visually staggering meditation on mysticism, the fragile state of individual life, and the spiritual and psychological relationships between mental illness and transformation, Rita Hui tells the story of Cotton a worker in a funeral home, who finds herself slipping into the world of ghosts. The film interposes the achingly portrayed lives of Cotton, her lame husband Hang, her psychiatrist, and her master as they unravel the nature of her transition from a whole but damaged person into someone else entirely. During a farewell ceremony for a family friend, Cotton begins feeling as if her body and her consciousness are separating. Different memories, identities and actions are lingering inside Cotton, which aggravate the unusual relationship between herself, her lame boyfriend and her psychiatrist.
Chillerama
Action,Comedy,Horror
Film Details
This is a simple story, yet with complicated emotions and subject matter. The relationship between the story and the film is always a subject matter that interests me. Other than the common film language, is there any other way of telling a story? Cotton is losing herself gradually, losing the threshold of being one single Ego and thus opening herself to other spirits.
In the process of losing her individuality, there has been no fear, only a pleasant sensation with the guilt of peeping instead. —Anonymous In a farewell ceremony for a friend of the family, Keening Woman (Cotton) acts abnormally because of the Spirit, Ling. Her body and her consciousness are separating.
Different memories, consciousnesses, identities and actions are lingering inside Cotton, which collaborate the unusual relationship between herself, her lame boyfriend and her psychiatrist. There is the one body, in which Cotton and Ling connect with each other spiritually and which leads them wandering the Luo Feng Mountain. There is water flowing downstream, which constitutes different scenes and imageries, delving into the consciousness.
It presents something that is beyond substance. It returns them to the nature and begins an indescribable journey of Chinese ink painting. Cotton and Ling are opening a door, into a situation that entering another world.
In an emotionally unmooring and visually staggering meditation on mysticism, the fragile state of individual life, and the spiritual and psychological relationships between mental illness and transformation, Rita Hui tells the story of Cotton a worker in a funeral home, who finds herself slipping into the world of ghosts. The film interposes the achingly portrayed lives of Cotton, her lame husband Hang, her psychiatrist, and her master as they unravel the nature of her transition from a whole but damaged person into someone else entirely. During a farewell ceremony for a family friend, Cotton begins feeling as if her body and her consciousness are separating.
Different memories, identities and actions are lingering inside Cotton, which aggravate the unusual relationship between herself, her lame boyfriend and her psychiatrist..