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Why Is It So Sad When Characters in Christmas Movies Sing in Unison? Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail According to one of the many oft-quoted lines in the modern holiday classic Elf, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. It is also, for some reason, one of the best ways to reduce me to tears. I’m not, in general, a big movie crier. Personally, I prefer to save my irrational tears for drunk crying on the bathroom floor of clubs or weeping quietly on the subway. But give me a bunch of characters in a Christmas movie coming together to sing in u...

How Wong Kar-wai Cultivated Hong Kong Cool Through His Film Characters Faye Fearon, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Wong Kar-wai isn’t your conventional film director. Across a career of over 30 years (and counting), not once has he prioritized a script. Sure, it’s there — always in a nonlinear narrative — but Wong’s knack for directing a film isn’t solely down to his disproportioned plots. Rather, it’s down to every other surrounding detail: genuinely beautiful cinematography (dominated by contrasts and heavily saturated colors), atmospheric music and an emotionally intense a...