#mr long

[lostinmac]

Mr. Long (2017)

Dir. SABU

[danman0916]

When you walk in after a long day and the tax papers are laid out on the table when you get home.

[nordleuchten]

La Fayette in Prison - Addendum

Ever since I have started my “La Fayette in Prison” series, I have been frustrated by the lack of information. Something that irked me especially was the fact that most books/papers always wrote that La Fayette was initially arrested with his fellow officers, a few Aide-de-Camps and their servants - but I have never seen their names and is honestly is a shame that we do not know who most of these men were.

Just the other day, I was browsing the Georgian Papers Programme and found a letter that must have been added quite recently because I have seen it before during similar searches. It is a letter in French, written on August 29, 1792 by an unknown person and addressed to William Henry, Duke of Gloucester (younger brother of King George III). The letter relates intelligence gathered by a Mister Long from Liegne about the French Revolution. At the very end is a “Liste des officiers francais arrété à Rhochefort Le 21 aoust 1792” - in other words, we can now a least name some of the men that were arrested that day - and in no small parts thanks to the wonderful @acrossthewavesoftime who helped me decipher all of the names!

GEO/MAIN/54401-54402

Envoyé à M. Le Duc De Bourbon. Le Gen.’ Lafayette, Latour Maubourg,

alexandre Lameth, De Launoir, Maréchaux De Camp ‑ Victor Maubourg,

Colonel de chasseurs - Charles Maubourg officier; Lacombe aide de camp

Général-Mayor Cap.ne aide de camp ‑ Soubeyran Capitaine ‑ Gouvion

frere cadet Du tué ‑ lillet Commissaires des guerres - Les Deux

freres Thomeuf Capitaines de Dragons - Cadignan Lieutenant Colonel ‑

Curemaire Capitaine ‑ Bureau de pussy Capitaine Du Génie ‑ Beaucoup

d’autres qui ne sont pas De marque. ils avoient en tous pour eux et Leur

Domestiques 90 chevaux ./:

Some of the names on this list are pretty well known, both for the person individually but also for their involvement in the French Revolution and their subsequent arrest. La Fayette, the three Maubourg brothers, Lameth, Bureau de Pussy … but while many of these names are well known, just as many names are completely unknown, at least to me. This is one of the moments where you have to realize, that history forgets and history overshadows.

[natehoodreviews]

400 Words on MR LONG ★★★½

[Originally published on UnseenFilms]

Few directors play with genre as audaciously and consistently as auteur Sabu. For decades he’s crafted some of the oddest, most unclassifiable films to poke their way out of Japanese genre filmmaking, challenging norms and audiences with stories that refuse to fit into boxes. His 2017 film Mr. Long is no exception, deftly skipping from gruesome violence to light-hearted comedy to soul-crushing tragedy. The film follows Mr. Long, a Taiwanese assassin who finds himself trapped in Japan after a hit gone wrong leaves him stranded with no cash or identification. Wandering through the outskirts of Tokyo, he discovers a young boy and his junkie mother living in a squalid neighborhood. He quickly bonds with the child and draws the attention of their neighbors after they learn that he’s an excellent cook. (Apparently, slicing jugulars aren’t his only knife skills.) The neighborhood bands together and builds him a noodle stand where he serves Taiwanese beef noodles outside a nearby temple with the boy as his assistant. Meanwhile, Long forces the mother to get clean the old fashioned way: tying her up until she rides all the poison out of her system. Crude and pitiless, yes, but considering Long’s bloody pedigree it might be the most compassionate way of helping her he can think of. Soon, the two fall in love and start a new family with the boy. But then Sabu pulls the rug out from under us by revealing that the mother was a former prostitute who ran away from her mafia handlers after getting pregnant from a customer she’d fallen in love with. And that mafia boss whose been hunting her all these years? He’s the same gangster Long failed to hunt down earlier. And wouldn’t you know that right as she starts a new life with Long he finally finds her. The thing that keeps Mr. Long cohesive as it weaves its way through various tones is an overarching emotional unity of loneliness and sadness that gives way only through the kindness of strangers and the individual’s ability to forgive themselves of their pasts. It keeps us from mentally disassociating as Sabu shifts from ultra-violence where Long stabs and slices his way through literally dozens of goons to gentle comedy as he tries to navigate his new adopted country despite not speaking the language. It’s by keeping the drama human that he keeps it believable.

[whentheresidentsareevil]

Adventures of the LONG #20

“ALWAYS SAY YES TO LOVE!”

[whentheresidentsareevil]

Adventures of the LONG #14

“We’ll let you be in the show even if you make our lives HORRIBLE.”

[whentheresidentsareevil]

Adventures of the LONG #13

“I hope you don’t trample my heart.”