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omusi yoon ph. by cho gi seok // sunmi for noir
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Sunmi in 꼬리 Teaser Photos (2021) • Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992)
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Fake Reality by SHINee (2021) recalls the conceptual unreality of the modern suburb explored in 90s film
Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton (1990) // American Beauty, dir. Sam Mendes (1999) // The Truman Show, dir. Peter Weir (1998)
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IDEA:理想, Taemin (2020) • The Truman Show, dir. Peter Weir (1998)
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Fake Reality, SHINee (2021) • The Truman Show, dir. Peter Weir (1998)
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Don't Call Me Teaser Images, SHINee (2021) • The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
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Eternally, TXT, dir. Digipedi (2020) // Annihilation, dir. Alex Garland (2018)
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happy now, ha:tfelt (2019) // life sucks, ha:tfelt (2020) // sympathy for lady vengeance, dir. park chan-wook (2005)
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criminal, taemin, dir. paranoid paradigm (2020) // rbb, red velvet, dir. oui kim (2018) // the shining, dir. stanley kubrick (1980)
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Celebrity, IU, dir. VMProject (2021) • Enemy, dir. Denis Villeneuve (2013)
In Enemy, a professor spots and obsessively follows his identical lookalike who lives a freer life than him, the film as a metaphor for struggling to commit to a new life as an adult.
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Love Killa, Monsta X (2020) • Fight Club, dir. David Fincher (1999)
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tzuyu in 'cheer up', dir. naive (2016) // barbara stanwyck in 'remember the night', dir. mitchell leisen (1940)
both reference the famous corset scene from 'gone with the wind', dir. victor fleming (1939)
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Rosario ft. CL, Zico, Epik High (2021) • The Shining, dir. Stanley Kubrick (1980)
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X, Chungha (2021) • Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, dir. Nathan Juran (1958)
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Thank U, U-KNOW, dir. Kim Hyunsoo (2021) • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, dir. Paul Schrader (1985)
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Thank U, U-KNOW, dir. Kim Hyunsoo (2021) • Le Samouraï, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
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reference to oldboy's iconic hallway fight tracking shot scene
thank u, u-know, dir. kim hyunsoo (2021) // oldboy, dir. park chanwook (2003) // tw blood guns
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An Ode 1: Unchained Melody, Seventeen (2019) • Dead Poet's Society, dir. Peter Weir (1989)
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chungking express, dir. wong kar wai (1994) evoked in kpop mvs
cookie jar, red velvet (2018) // wind flower, mamamoo (2018) // singing in the rain, jinsoul (2017)
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love4eva, loona yyxy, dir. digipedi (2018) evoking stanley kubrick
barry lyndon (1975) // full metal jacket (1987)
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itzy referencing films about rebellion
wannabe (2020) // gone girl, dir. david fincher (2014)
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egoist by olivia hye (2018) referencing wong kar wai
the sign behind jinsoul says 墮落天使, the original title for "fallen angels" (1995) // the shot features empty cans, referring to the canned pineapples from "chungking express" (1994)
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Zimzalabim, Red Velvet, dir. VMProject (2019) • The Grand Budapest Hotel, dir. Wes Anderson (2014)
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Monster, Red Velvet-Irene&Seulgi (2020) • The Young Girls of Rochefort, dir. Jacques Demy (1967)
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Holo, Lee Hi, dir. Nuri Jeong (2020) • Wings of Desire, dir. Wim Wenders (1987)
"Whether being alone or together / The loneliness feels the same / One day it will stop."
intersection of kpop and film