This spring, I watched When Life Gives You Tangerines, and I honestly didn’t expect to be so fully transposed. Even though my own experience is tied to French Polynesia and the series is set in South Korea (Jeju), the depiction of island life - the good and the bad - the dream of escaping to the big city (in my case, the “Métropole”; in the series’ case, the mainland), and the struggles of adapting to that big city once you get there as an “exotic” person, all felt so familiar and well done that I cried during every episode. I’m curious - have you ever experienced something like this with a movie or series?

  • Venicone@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Really loved Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn. Despite being a black comedy it just seemed to hit me in the right place. Vaughn is always so positive and chatty in it even to the bad guys and it just cracks me up.

    And the narrators voice is 👌