IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, first up is In the Heat of the Sun (1994), the debut feature of Chinese director Jiang Wen, whose WW2 film Devils on the Doorstep (2000) we previously watched. What happens when the adults all leave the city during the Cultural Revolution, and a bunch of rowdy teenage boys are left to run the place? A lot of mischief, that’s what. They may even try to hook up with girls. Things get a little more complicated once the Revolution arrives home and the struggle sessions begin, but this is still one of the more nostalgic pictures of the period to come out of mainland China. One of the highest-rated Chinese films on Letterboxd. Looks good; let’s watch.

After that is Hunger (2008), an Irish drama starring Michael Fassbender about IRA member Bobby Sands’ hunger strike, which he underwent in 1981 in the infamous British political prison, the Maze. Will he achieve his demands? Don’t go to his Wikipedia article if you don’t want to spoil yourself. God Damn the UKKK: The Movie. This was the feature-film directorial debut of Steve McQueen, who is better-known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), though this film is about as well-reviewed.

Finally, for anyone who is still awake afterward, we’ll watch the fifth Pokemon movie, Pokemon Heroes (2002). Latias and Latios are in this one.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • In the Heat of the Sun: https://letterboxd.com/film/in-the-heat-of-the-sun/
  • Hunger: https://letterboxd.com/film/hunger/
  • Pokemon Heroes: https://letterboxd.com/film/pokemon-heroes/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • In the Heat of the Sun: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
  • Hunger: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/28753
  • Pokemon Heroes: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15430

CWs for In the Heat of the Sun:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Sexual assault: a boy is held down and forcefully kissed by a girl. There is also a rough sex scene near the end (about 2:09:00 to 2:12:00) in which the protagonist wrestles his love interest onto a bed, and she resists, but then gets on top of him, in a sort of interplay-of-sex-and-violence thing. Dubious consent to say the least. I will CW in the chat before this scene.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Horny teenage boys.
  • Discussion of sex.
  • Child abuse.
  • Struggle sessions.
  • Gun violence.
  • Beatings.
  • Public shaming.
  • Alcohol.

CWs for Hunger:

  • Nudity.
  • Implied masturbation.
  • Sexual assault: strip-searching of prisoners. Not much detail shown.
  • Drug use.
  • Death of horse.
  • Bugs.
  • Shaving.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Torture.
  • Death of parent.
  • Bath scenes.
  • Vomiting.
  • Spitting.
  • Audio gore.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Starvation.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Drowning.
  • Gun violence.

CWs for Pokemon Heroes:

  • Death of child.
  • Death of animal.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Animal cruelty.
  • Cartoon violence.
  • Explosions.
  • Torture.
  • Existentialism.
  • Bugs.
  • Someone is physically restrained.

Links to movies:

  • In the Heat of the Sun: https://tankie.tube/w/2tkAuQh8shQwv67SCMKzDU
  • Hunger: https://tankie.tube/w/vy28tg2yF1EpePNRPFcFYh
  • Pokemon Heroes: https://tankie.tube/w/5gMqvyrpincgTRgsNaSzjX