Ugh


I don't mind slow films. I like Kiyoshi. I was really looking forward to this, after seeing Pulse, Seance, Cure, Doppelganger, Retribution, Charisma, and Loft.

Those who say this movie is enigmatic, disturbing, foils 'Western' aesthetic sensibilities, replete with Fellinian/Bunuelian/Lynchian influences/inspirations/references...you're so full of sh*t.

This movie is nothing more than a single, sterile, heavy-handed, patent-obvious symbolic device set to periodic campy music, prodded along by a sh*t script.

As I said, I like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Honestly though, not a master. Wouldn't even say 'great'. But I do think he has a unique viewpoint, and he shoots certain things in a very interesting way. With his more 'supernatural' fares at least there was that entertaining arthouse-horror appeal - but this one, simply STINKS.

Why would anyone want to watch a couple of poorly drawn schizoid Japanteens with 'crazy hair' trying to stare at a jellyfish for 90+ minutes? Getting me to dislike Asano Tadanobu is a feat, but this film managed to make me want to just clutch and shake him like a hydrocephalic baby. Anyone *not* getting the 'message' here can't possibly be filmschool dropouts, because they most likely never even passed 10th-grade English (oooohhh, symbolism...). In all seriousness, I think Kurosawa didn't go *nearly* as far as he could with this one, and failed in *all* respects.

I suspect a film like this will still draw in the self-identified global consumerist 'sophistiques' though, as it does have that rancid Haruki-Murakamiesque je-ne-sais-quoi going for it.

Please, people, educate yourselves, and skip this exercise in banality called Bright Future.

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Don't try to pass your opinion off as fact, i enjoyed this movie and would certainly recommend it, not condemn it.

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You know what sounds pretentious?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363235/board/flat/121963146?d=121963146#1 21963146

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this is the only film I like by this director.

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I don't feel nearly as heated about it, but I was disappointed.
Cure and Pulse are both great, and I certainly didn't go into this expecting a horror film, I knew what to expect.
It was just a fairly flat, non-atmospheric allegory with characters I couldn't really care about.
Sure they're supposed to be alienated, aimless youths and whatnot, but they were so static that we never really got to look at them and find them to be interesting people that we ought to care about. Things just sort of happened, and then it was over.

Plus, that awful *beep* music...

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This movie is nothing more than a single, sterile, heavy-handed, patent-obvious symbolic device set to periodic campy music, prodded along by a sh*t script.


Why?

With his more 'supernatural' fares at least there was that entertaining arthouse-horror appeal - but this one, simply STINKS.


Why?

Getting me to dislike Asano Tadanobu is a feat, but this film managed to make me want to just clutch and shake him like a hydrocephalic baby.


Why?

Anyone *not* getting the 'message' here can't possibly be filmschool dropouts, because they most likely never even passed 10th-grade English (oooohhh, symbolism...).


There's a theme in your post. Giving a vague opinion with no weight behind it. Once again...you do not actually say why. In other words what is the message? Notice that this poster does not state what is so obvious to him and here is the reason why...it's because he is afraid he's gotten it wrong and wants to maintain some air of superiority when in reality he is a coward. You don't want to look stupid when someone corrects you. Actually typing ooh with extra o's kind of gives you away.

I suspect a film like this will still draw in the self-identified global consumerist 'sophistiques' though, as it does have that rancid Haruki-Murakamiesque je-ne-sais-quoi going for it.


Murakami's books are nothing like this film with the exception of the fact it's in Japan. I guess that's enough for you. Here he tries to use "global consumerist sophistiques" and "Murakamiesque je-ne-sais-quoi" in a condescending manner because he wants to elevate his intelligence, while at the same time be able to say 'I wasn't really using those phrases' when someone calls him out on his pretentiousness.

Please, people, educate yourselves, and skip this exercise in banality called Bright Future.


Please, people, educate yourselves, and see through this vain attempt to impress anonymous strangers online by name-dropping in an out of place and awkward manner. Try harder.



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