Film Review Blog. Visual & Performing Arts Essay. (Essay Sample)

Write a film review bolg about film HOU Hsiao-hsien, Daughter of the Nile (1987, Ni luo he nu er , Taiwan, 93 min.)
The post should be between 250 (min) and 500 (max) words. Please make sure you watch the film.
Film blogs are a place you can express your reaction to the films we’re watching, but they’re also more than that. They give you the opportunity to hone your close reading skills of a particular scene in the film.
Choose one scene to write about. How do you pick that scene? If you don’t like something we watched, try and move beyond “I don’t like this” by choosing the scene that makes you feel most frustrated. Why don’t you like it? Is the filmmaker trying to be liked? Or if you love it, why do you love it? What is the film expressing in that particular moment that makes it so good? Or, if you don’t have any emotional connection to the film, this is also the place where you can choose a scene and sort out why.
There are a number of ways to approach these open-ended posts: consider the scene you choose to discuss in relation to its historical or theoretical context; write about an aspect of the week’s reading that relates to your understanding of a particular moment/scene in the film; write about something that surprised you (and why it surprised you); formulate an insightful question or two about the scene and then attempt to answer your own questions.
DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PLOT OF THE FILM. This will earn you zero points on your post.
I have uploaded the three related readings—1) Yale Film Terms Analysis 1 2) Yale Film Terms Analysis 2 and 3) Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films.
This is not a formal writing so do not cite.