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* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts, with loads of ''beautiful'' shots of [[TheEiffelTowerEffect famous buildings and public art around the city]], almost always receiving more emphasis than the people in the shot.
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* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts, with loads of ''beautiful'' shots of [[TheEiffelTowerEffect [[EiffelTowerEffect famous buildings and public art around the city]], almost always receiving more emphasis than the people in the shot.
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''Columbus'' is a 2017 drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada in his feature directorial debut and starring Creator/JohnCho and Creator/HaleyLuRichardson. The film is set in the town of Columbus, Indiana, a town known for its Modern architecture and unique public art.
Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father Jae Yong Lee, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized after falling into a coma. While awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father Jae Yong Lee, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized after falling into a coma. While awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
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''Columbus'' is a 2017 drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada in his feature directorial debut and starring Creator/JohnCho and Creator/HaleyLuRichardson. The film was completely filmed and is set in the town of Columbus, Indiana, a town known for its Modern architecture and unique public art.
Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father Jae Yong Lee, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized after falling into a coma. While awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recoveringaddict. The addict, and the two get spend the next several days getting to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most other and take their lives back.
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Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father Jae Yong Lee, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized after falling into a coma. While awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The only thing preventing the movie from being rated PG is its four or five uses of PrecisionFStrike.
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Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized due to a coma. While visiting the town and awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
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Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father, father Jae Yong Lee, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized due to after falling into a coma. While visiting the town and awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
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* CelibateHero: Casey has zero romantic interest in either Casey or Gabriel.
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* CelibateHero: Casey has zero romantic interest in either Casey Jin or Gabriel.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Architecture professor Jae Yong Lee, Jin's father, is only onscreen for the opening two minutes before collapsing into a coma, which sets off the entire rest of the plot.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Casey's mother has relapsed, and she and Jin eventually go their separate ways. However, Casey learns to follow her dreams after all, and she departs the city on good terms with both her mother and Jin.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Casey's mother has relapsed, and she and Jin eventually go their separate ways. However, Casey learns to follow her dreams after all, and she departs the city on good terms with both her mother and Jin. Meanwhile, Jin decides to stay in Columbus to care for his comatose father rather than stay estranged from him.]]
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* CatharticCrying: After spending the entire movie holding back tears or hiding them behind a StepfordSmiler, Casey breaks down [[spoiler:in Eleanor's car just before leaving Columbus with her.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Casey is a recent high school graduate who loves architecture, is close with her mother, and aspires to do greater things with her life yet feels restricted to the city of Columbus by that very love. Jin is a middle-aged Korean man who isn't too impressed by architecture ([[HiddenDepths at first]]), resents his father, and is also restricted to Columbus but wishes to leave in order to spite his father. [[CharacterDevelopment Naturally, both of them change over time.]]
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* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts, with loads of ''beautiful'' shots of [[TheEiffelTowerEffect famous buildings and public art around the city]], almost always receiving more emphasis than the people in the shot.
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* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts, with loads of ''beautiful'' shots of [[TheEiffelTowerEffect famous buildings and public art around the city]], almost always receiving more emphasis than the people in the shot.shot.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Casey says a more expletive variant of this upon witnessing [[spoiler:her mother's friend lie about her mother showing up to work.]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Casey says a more expletive variant of this upon witnessing [[spoiler:her mother's friend lie about her mother showing up to work.]]
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* AmicableExes: Jin and Eleanor are exes but greet each other warmly, with Eleanor even serving as Jin's father's caretaker. [[spoiler:They even nearly hook up toward the end, but Eleanor stops him.]]
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* CastingGag: At one point, Casey enters a toy store called Duncan's. Creator/RoryCulkin, Gabriel's actor, is the younger brother of Creator/MacaulayCulkin, whose role as Kevin [=McCallister=] in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' has him protecting a toy store called Duncan's Toy Chest from burglars.
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* CastingGag: At one point, Casey Jin enters a toy store called Duncan's. Creator/RoryCulkin, Gabriel's actor, is the younger brother of Creator/MacaulayCulkin, whose role as Kevin [=McCallister=] in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' has him protecting a toy store called Duncan's Toy Chest from burglars.burglars.
* CelibateHero: Casey has zero romantic interest in either Casey or Gabriel.
* CelibateHero: Casey has zero romantic interest in either Casey or Gabriel.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Casey's very first scene has her checking out the First Christian Church building, reciting facts about the building to herself while [[CigaretteOfAnxiety nervously smoking a cigarette]], cluing the audience in to her intelligence and hidden inner turmoil.
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* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts.enthusiasts, with loads of ''beautiful'' shots of [[TheEiffelTowerEffect famous buildings and public art around the city]], almost always receiving more emphasis than the people in the shot.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Casey's and Gabriel's relationship. On one hand, it's obvious that Gabriel is attracted to Casey, but on the other hand, she rebuffs his more explicit attempts at flirting with her by laughing them off and continues to hang out with him in and out of work, heavily implying she only sees him as [[JustFriends a friend]].
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* CastingGag: At one point, Casey enters a toy store called Duncan's. Creator/RoryCulkin, Gabriel's actor, is the younger brother of Creator/MacaulayCulkin, whose role as Kevin [=McCallister=] in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' has him protecting a toy store called Duncan's Toy Chest from burglars.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Casey appears to love smoking as much as she loves architecture. Though she says she wants to break the habit toward the end of the movie.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Casey appears to love smoking as much as she loves architecture. Though she says she wants to break the habit toward the end of the movie.
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The movie is most noteworthy for its ''[[SceneryPorn gorgeous]]'' [[SceneryPorn cinematography]] that emphasizes the unique architecture of Columbus, Indiana, the movie's shots virtually making the city its own character in the film. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
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The movie is most noteworthy for its ''[[SceneryPorn gorgeous]]'' [[SceneryPorn cinematography]] that emphasizes the unique architecture of Columbus, Indiana, the movie's shots virtually making presenting the city as if it were its own character in the film. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
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* OddFriendship: Casey and Jin are the unlikeliest people to be friends with, but they find common ground and start bringing out the best in each other.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Jin is about two decades older than Casey (though the gap doesn't look too obvious considering John Cho's youthful appearance), and the movie is about their blossoming friendship.
* OddFriendship: Casey and Jin are the unlikeliest people you'd expect tobe friends with, become friends, but they find common ground and start bringing out the best in each other.other.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Casey driving out of Columbus in an identical shot to earlier in the movie of the Robert N. Stewart Bridge.]]
* OddFriendship: Casey and Jin are the unlikeliest people you'd expect to
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Casey driving out of Columbus in an identical shot to earlier in the movie of the Robert N. Stewart Bridge.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Casey's mother has relapsed, and she and Jin eventually go their separate ways. However, Casey learns to follow her dreams after all, and she departs the city on good terms with both her mother and Jin.]]
* FemaleGaze: The audience gets a shot of Creator/JohnCho taking a shower, bare backside facing the camera.
* FemaleGaze: The audience gets a shot of Creator/JohnCho taking a shower, bare backside facing the camera.
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->'''Casey:''' I'm really interested in architecture.\\
'''Jin:''' Yeah, I hear this town is quite the Mecca.
''Columbus'' is a 2017 drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada in his feature directorial debut and starring Creator/JohnCho and Creator/HaleyLuRichardson. The film is set in the town of Columbus, Indiana, a town known for its Modern architecture and unique public art.
Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized due to a coma. While visiting the town and awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
The movie is most noteworthy for its ''[[SceneryPorn gorgeous]]'' [[SceneryPorn cinematography]] that emphasizes the unique architecture of Columbus, Indiana, the movie's shots virtually making the city its own character in the film. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
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* BilingualBonus: With the exception of the opening scene, none of the Korean spoken by Jin is subtitled.
* OddFriendship: Casey and Jin are the unlikeliest people to be friends with, but they find common ground and start bringing out the best in each other.
* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts.
'''Jin:''' Yeah, I hear this town is quite the Mecca.
''Columbus'' is a 2017 drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada in his feature directorial debut and starring Creator/JohnCho and Creator/HaleyLuRichardson. The film is set in the town of Columbus, Indiana, a town known for its Modern architecture and unique public art.
Jin Lee (Cho) is a Korean-born man visiting the titular town after hearing that his estranged father, a renowned architect who'd stopped by the city to deliver a lecture, has been hospitalized due to a coma. While visiting the town and awaiting news of his father's status, he strikes up an OddFriendship with Casey (Richardson), a Columbus native and architecture enthusiast caring for her mother who's a recovering addict. The two get to know each other, eventually forcing themselves to confront what bothers them most and take their lives back.
The movie is most noteworthy for its ''[[SceneryPorn gorgeous]]'' [[SceneryPorn cinematography]] that emphasizes the unique architecture of Columbus, Indiana, the movie's shots virtually making the city its own character in the film. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* BilingualBonus: With the exception of the opening scene, none of the Korean spoken by Jin is subtitled.
* OddFriendship: Casey and Jin are the unlikeliest people to be friends with, but they find common ground and start bringing out the best in each other.
* SceneryPorn: ''Oh yes.'' This film goes out of its way to show exactly why Columbus, Indiana, is considered a Mecca for architecture enthusiasts.
