I stay away from Larry. Have you seen his pre-Larry the Cable Guy stand up?
I just saw City of Sadness. Wikipedia:
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It tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s, during which thousands of Taiwanese were rounded up, shot, and/or sent to prison.
The film was the first deal openly with the KMT's authoritarian misdeeds after its 1945 takeover of Taiwan from Japan, and the first to depict the 228 Incident of 1947, in which thousands of people were massacred.
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I'm not going to say I didn't like it. I did. But I wasn't overly impressed with it. It's worth a watch though, for sure, because it's a culture that we know nothing about. There were some parts in the movie that really grabbed me though, like when they'd sit around and talk/debate about the nationalist government and such.
And the movie I saw before that I liked much more. Grave of the Fireflies. An anti-war anime.
I just read the wikipedia page and it said that it's based on a novel and the novel was intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister... which brings me to my next point.
The movie is really tragic. If you don't feel anything during the last half hour or so you're dead to me. So powerful that, even though it's an anime, it takes on human traits. It makes you see things like it's level.
Strongly recommended.
Now I don't know what to watch next. So many movies, so little time.