11/14/51

Had my first exam of the semester. It was terrible. I hate it when professors do that thing where choice d will be ‘all of the above’ or something and I always always get those wrong. I saw the new Lau movie about how the Fall effected nations undergoing industrialization, which makes it sound much more dry than it actually was. It was quite lovely, in an understated way, almost reminds me of those ancient landscape paintings with the jagged mountains and sparse trees. Very back to nature, with shots of the Vietnamese countryside, the rolling green hills, a sudden spring shower, stuff like that. It would be interesting to examine how the Fall led to a resurgence of nature-oriented films and the use of old media.