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Feeling seen · Molly Mielke

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Thinking about the thread count of the human experience

Feeling seen · Molly Mielke Feeling seen Last updated February 3rd, 2022 I’ve been thinking a lot about this scene from one of my favorite films by Wong Kar-Wai called In the Mood for Love . It’s breathtakingly beautiful, excruciatingly slow, and almost nothing actually happens. It is, quite literally, two and a half minutes of two people being people — only crossing paths and exchanging a long lingering glance in the last 15 seconds . But the friction-filled punch those 15 seconds pack is apparently potent enough for some of us to want to write an essay about it. Admittedly, it’s a cheap shot

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