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\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/em>Shelf Life<\/em> (2005) <\/a>arrived in our mailbox a while ago.\u00a0 I had added it to our queue ages agon and had since forgotten exactly what it was about.\u00a0 In the meantime, both Richard and I developed the idea that the film was foreign and subtitled.\u00a0 I specifically developed the idea that the film was Korean.<\/p>\n

These aren’t the reasons why we avoided putting the disc in the player and instead chose movie after movie, including plenty of subtitled Korean movies, to watch instead.\u00a0 Eventually, we decided to get it over with and just watch the thing.<\/p>\n

I remember that I wanted to see this in the same way I am interested in all movies and TV shows about libraries and librarians.\u00a0 It’s a weird introspective, self mocking, others mocking type of enjoyment I get from depictions of these people and places.\u00a0 AND BOY DOES THIS MOVIE DELIVER!\u00a0 Sorry I had to shout.\u00a0 Shelf Life<\/em><\/a> is not Korean, nor is it subtitled.\u00a0 It is a stark, yet funny, slow starting, acerbic look at small library hierarchy and personalities.\u00a0 It reminds me of The Librarians<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It is less big laughs than small furtive, guilty chuckles (at least for me), and it is utterly impossible to stop watching.<\/p>\n

It starts like a quite school assignment production with the characters awkwardly exchanging dialog and then it grabs your attention with a fishhook to your face (not literally).\u00a0 Suddenly you are wrapped up in the mystery of an unfolding story of miscommunication, misconception, quick judgements and terribly questionable human behavior.\u00a0 This is love, ladies and gentlemen.\u00a0 Though, I have to admit, not the marrying kind of love. I probably will not want to watch this movie over and over again.\u00a0 No, this is a summer camp romance kind of love.\u00a0 The kind that you deny ever happened when you catch each other’s eye in the hallway on your way to class, but secretly you review over and over again in your diary at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Shelf Life (2005) arrived in our mailbox a while ago.\u00a0 I had added it to our queue ages agon and had since forgotten exactly what it was about.\u00a0 In the meantime, both Richard and I developed the idea that the film was foreign and subtitled.\u00a0 I specifically developed the idea that the film was Korean.… Continue reading Shelf Life (2005) – IMDb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[73,21],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-librarians","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/russian-ark\/","url_meta":{"origin":5053,"position":0},"title":"Russian Ark","author":"leems","date":"January 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It all started with a preview on a Netflix rental.\u00a0 I was intrigued by the idea that a movie could be filmed through in one shot and all in the Russian gallery.\u00a0 I figured the uniqueness of this alone would make it worth a rental, so I added\u00a0 Russian Ark\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9377,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/holidays-in-the-movies-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":5053,"position":1},"title":"Holidays in the Movies: New Year","author":"leems","date":"December 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We may be reeling from our Christmas watching and happy to finally be free to watch anything we want, but there are movies and specials that make the New Year at our house. 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