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Poetry
May 19, 2025
Stray Sheep
(Seen in “Stray Sheep” photograph)
The city sounded as I stood.
My face contorted leaving an unreadable expression
Perfectly portraying the unreadable feeling I was struck with
As I saw how the sun spotlighted you in the trees that afternoon
Looking toward a direction not mine.
I wish…
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Didi (2024) Review
May 19, 2025
Read on ZINZZU 1:1
Didi (2024) directed by Sean Wang narrates the story of Chris Wang struggling through adolescence as a Taiwanese teen growing up in California. Throughout the film, he learns to get along with his older sister who’s going off to college, he learns to make friends as…
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(Essay) Socialist Nostalgia in Eastern European Movies
May 19, 2025
“Lenin walks around the world./The sun sets like a scar./Between the darkness and the dawn/There rises a red star,” Langston Hughes writes. Communism collapsed, and history as people knew it ended in 1989, but time went on. The uncertainty of a new, democratic, and capitalistic future turned people to look…
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