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Everyone Says I Love You (1996, dir. Woody Allen)
Pet Shop Boys - Decide (Unofficial Video)
Her (2103, Spike Jonze)
Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
Collateral (2004)
Bangkok.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-ik-Bpl0c)
I love this scene. Everything about it. Not so much because of the background artistry itself (which is beautiful in its own right) but for what it evokes. For me, that is "home". Watching this scene feels like coming home to me. It literally throws me back at Bangkok in the 90s, because this is exactly how it looked and felt like (i know the scene's scenery was based on Hongkong in the 90s, but you would be surprised of how similar Bangkok was to that).
Skyscrappers in progress. Huge walls of advertising everywhere. Megacity dirt, Megacity wetness. Big City lights. Klongs filled with stinking brown water and floating garbage here and there. Large buildings filled with familiar yet unknown faces. The colours of it all. Greys and browns. Those dirty, depressing looking apartment blocks.
Bangkok still is like this today, mind you. But i don't know. Maybe it is the colours of this scene, all the blurry greys and browns, the music that accompanies it all that takes me back so immensely whenever i watch this, hitting me with that intense nostalgia of how i remembered Bangkok as a child. And it also reminds me of how much i actually love-hate this city.