015: 10 rays of the sun
I think this might be the last essay from the archives, so any more writing is going to be brand new! Here we have Tran Anh Hung's beautiful The Vertical Ray of the Sun, if you're wondering why I mostly write about Asian cinema, it's because a lot of my writing in the past has been for an Asian film magazine that me and some friends started back in college. We'll have to find a time to talk about it.
We're also showcasing our first sequel, 10 More Ways to Connect follows up on the original, with 10 more ways in which we can play with two dots and a few lines.
A sequel to 10 Ways to Connect, here are 10 more ways in which two dots can connect. I'm particularly fond of Sharing a Joint, with its double meaning, and Build Bounds Together, creating connection through framing.
On the anniversary of their mother’s death, three sisters reminisce about the idyllic relationship that their late mother had with their father, who—in their eyes–poetically passed a month after their mother died. They were inseparable to the end, a perfect sort of relationship. During the conversation, a mysterious Toàn was also brought up—a crush, a fantasy, or maybe a lover of the mother, and a foil to their imagined ideal romance. They decide to drop that line of thought.