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Why I love Movies and TV from South East Asia

Why I love Movies and TV from South East Asia

A few years ago, I attended the Traverse City Film Festival as I do every year from its first year.  I happened upon a film called, "Castaways on the Moon."  It opened my eyes to how good a movie from another country could be.  I have since seen several more and loved more of them than I hated! "Castaways on the Moon" is about a girl who is one of those modern-day shut-ins.  One of those children of the lost generation who live their lives in their bedrooms and whose only contact with the outside world is through their computer.  She only goes out twice a year when there is no one else on the street in her busy Seoul neighborhood, those days when there are emergency drills and all cars and buses must leave the roads and all pedestrians must seek shelter for the length of the drill.  She then walks out onto the street and feels as though she is a Castaway on the Moon. Add to this, a suicidal young man, in great debt who wants to jump off the bridge.  He knows thi
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