Long Day's Journey Into Night

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Jonathan J. @jonjondotcom1312 Dec 24 A great detective love story that plays out like a dream. Beautiful depictions of decay. See more Aidan P. @Aidanjp Oct 24 I still don’t know what it meant, but was blown away by the cinematic audacity of it, and I dug the surrealism or magical realism of it. Wish I could have seen it in the original 3D, with that amazing final 4min long take. See more Lon W @LONWOLF1968 Sep 20 WHAT A GREAT PIECE OF WORK. NO EXPLANATION NEEDED. IF YOU WATCH THIS MOVIE JUST LET IT TAKE YOU ON A DREAM RIDE. NO NEED TO DISSECT. IT JUST NEEDS TIME. LIKE A JAZZ CONCERT. See more MAHESH D @docherla Jul 12 I watched 40 minutes. Even for an art film, it was a sleep inducer. The actor does not show ANY expression to compensate for the lack of dialogue. What could have been conveyed in 20 min dragged on for 40 min and I quit. Even the other actors do not have any expressions except WEI TANG and I don't know why it is called an ART FILM. See more Sam N @RT61650855 Jun 23 Long Day’s Journey into Night is a slow, dreamlike film where memory blurs into story. Luo returns home, searching for a woman from his past—but really, he’s chasing who he was when he loved her. The plot is deliberately disorienting: places shift, objects repeat, time folds. The hour-long single take in the second half is stunning and surreal. It won’t be for everyone, but if you surrender to it, there’s something quietly moving underneath it all. See more Ben P @RT20862047 06/11/2025 ‘When people were sad, they would eat an apple, the whole thing, core and all,’ says Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue), the protagonist in Bi Gan’s hypnotic film-noir ‘Long Day’s Journey into the Night’. What follows is a two-minute scene in which we stare into the eyes of a boy, depressed and crying, as he takes an apple from his mother, resting on his shoulder, and eats it, core and all. It’s a sort of microcosm for the entire movie, really: beautifully melancholic, slow, but so opaque in its meaning to the overall narrative that it’s almost necessary to take each scene as its own. In fact, before the title card plays (which comes a staggering 70 minutes in), you wouldn’t blame a viewer, so lost under the gorgeous neon lights and pitter-patter of raindrops, the sporadic violence and poetic monologues, for having next to no idea what’s going on. And as you watch this boy eat the apple, core and all, it becomes easy to wonder where exactly the core to this movie is, or whether it too has been swallowed. Full Review on my Substack: https://benpatten.substack.com/ See more Read all reviews

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