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Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)

★ 7.0 · 283 ratings on TMDB
Long Day's Journey Into Night poster★ 7.0

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

DirectorBi Gan
CastBi Yanmin, Chen Yongzhong, Chloe Maayan, Duan Chun-hao, Feiyang Luo, Huang Jue
GenresDrama, Mystery
The emergence reading

Long Day's Journey Into Night keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, identity, love, mystery, surreal.

zero-distanceCNmemoryidentitylovemysterysurreal
Also inFilms about memoryFilms about loveFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)E8 · identity, love13 Going on 30 (2004)E8 · identity, loveAnastasia (1997)E8 · identity, loveAll of Us Strangers (2023)E8 · identity, loveChungking Express (1994)E8 · identity, lovePersonal Shopper (2016)E8 · identity, memory

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Frozen II (2019)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · identity, memory

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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