Brian

I appreciated Brian's introspection and thoughtfulness on how cinema can provide a sense of community and purpose for Brian himself. Every day, he attends screenings at the BFI Southbank, and the reader gets a clear understanding of what each film means to him. Brian developed a passion for post-war Japanese cinema. I can see what Jeremy Cooper possibly tried to do in echoing an Ozu film by showing the gentle mundanity of life. The only issue is that I never understood who Brian is as a character. He mentions aspects of his troubled childhood, but he quickly neglects them, and a paragraph or two later, he quickly revolves around talking about a Sans Soleil commentary.

Even for a cinephile like myself, this became quite tedious after a while and felt like reading someone's Letterboxd diary

so low key you barely realise it's started then ended, wish this was actually about cinema as the sight and sound ad proclaimed