Long Day's Journey Into Night

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MAHESH D I watched 40 minutes. Even for an art film, it was a sleep inducer. The actor does not show ANY expression to compensate for the lack of dialogue. What could have been conveyed in 20 min dragged on for 40 min and I quit. Even the other actors do not have any expressions except WEI TANG and I don't know why it is called an ART FILM. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review Sam N Long Day’s Journey into Night is a slow, dreamlike film where memory blurs into story. Luo returns home, searching for a woman from his past—but really, he’s chasing who he was when he loved her. The plot is deliberately disorienting: places shift, objects repeat, time folds. The hour-long single take in the second half is stunning and surreal. It won’t be for everyone, but if you surrender to it, there’s something quietly moving underneath it all. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/23/25 Full Review Ben P ‘When people were sad, they would eat an apple, the whole thing, core and all,’ says Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue), the protagonist in Bi Gan’s hypnotic film-noir ‘Long Day’s Journey into the Night’. What follows is a two-minute scene in which we stare into the eyes of a boy, depressed and crying, as he takes an apple from his mother, resting on his shoulder, and eats it, core and all. It’s a sort of microcosm for the entire movie, really: beautifully melancholic, slow, but so opaque in its meaning to the overall narrative that it’s almost necessary to take each scene as its own. In fact, before the title card plays (which comes a staggering 70 minutes in), you wouldn’t blame a viewer, so lost under the gorgeous neon lights and pitter-patter of raindrops, the sporadic violence and poetic monologues, for having next to no idea what’s going on. And as you watch this boy eat the apple, core and all, it becomes easy to wonder where exactly the core to this movie is, or whether it too has been swallowed. Full Review on my Substack: https://benpatten.substack.com/ Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/11/25 Full Review S R I saw it since it was on the NYT 1000 movies list. This one seemed to be included for its originality, but it was a confusing slog with a bizarre hour long shot that didn't make it any better. I did appreciate the cinematography, but other than that I don't need to see it again. SLC DVD. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/22/25 Full Review Steve C So mysterious, I still don't know what's it about... Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review an I loved this movie so much, watched 2-3; times and was not enough. The first time I didn't understand the plot 100%, but the cinematography was amazing, the second time everything became clear and loved it. I liked the flashbacks/memories, the long shots along with dark colours, and in the second part the one-shot scene. In the end it's all about love, you might look for an old love and not find it, so you choose the one that comes first. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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