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Venkatesh Rao's avatar

Excellent ideas. This also reminds me of this theory of Japanese fiction being about action/reaction rather than conflict. https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-horror-structure/

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Simon de la Rouviere's avatar

Thanks! And yeah, I wrote about Kishotenketsu a few years ago. https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/kishotenketsu

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seanstevenson's avatar

Perfect Days has been my favorite movie of the year thus far, and you explain why it works dramatically very well.

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Simon de la Rouviere's avatar

Yeah, loved it too. One of my favorites of the year so far as well.

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