Hey guys,
I loved the movie like I rarely loved a movie before. But seriously, the ending was some kind of joke, right? The over-exaggerated smiling and the corny hand-reaching... I'm pretty sure that wasn't meant in any kind of serious way but I don't get it.
Anyone got an opinion on that?
It was a happy ending, maybe you're used to ambiguous endings from most art films. I didn't find it corny.
Plus, it's based on a true story. So maybe that's how it ended. Not handshaking in a police car, but she saves him from the mental institute.
The only "truth" about the story is that a friend of sion sono was a professional "hentai" and saved somebody from a sect. thats it - the rest is fiction.
I like the ending - because it was NOT a typical hollywood happy end. Yoko returns the favor and saves Yu - the sprint and the handshake are more of a thankful gesture and a sign of friendship for both of them. I mean, you do realize what happens after? Yu will go back to the clinic or even to prison - it's all about the gesture here, not about "they live happily ever after". I couldn't think of a better way to end this movie.
first of all, IT IS a movie. it isn't meant to be taken so realistically... irl yu probably would have went to a maximum security prison for being a mass murderer and a "terrorist." besides, this film was a satire, unless you think christians and other like-minded people act like they do in the movie.
nonetheless, it is a happy ending... much like the forced happy endings of mainstream hollywood films. there is a bit of artificiality to it all... yu running away from the police and the men with the white gloves (which is highly unlikely and a bit absurd), but i agree that it was perfect for the movie.
I loved it, because it reminds you that the film is at core a love story, despite the sects, severed penis, killings, hentais, instant erections and homages to explotation. Great movie!
shareI loved it, because it reminds you that the film is at core a love story, despite the sects, severed penis, killings, hentais, instant erections and homages to explotation. Great movie!Right on! It's not a corny ending, or an artificial ending, or a joke, or a sign of nothing more than friendship. This is a love story in which the path to true love is strewn with the most amazing obstacles yet eventually - just when we've been plunged into a pit of despair, when all looks lost - good triumphs over evil, love over hate & we're left grinning & uplifted. And if that makes the film sound conventional, well, maybe there's some truth to that yet it's also brilliantly idiosyncratic.
Sono's effortless command of theme & tone is just astounding.It sure is. Especially, as this not a straightforward film as such.
everything in this movie is over-exaggerated, grotesque and not quite realistic. without it, it would be some other movie and surely less great.
shareI actually did show this one to two friends who a) hate to watch films that are not dubbed (I'm from Germany, and people here are very used to dubbed movies), b) don't watch Japanese films in general and c) had never seen a movie that is 4 hours long
This is now their favorite movie! :)
Leider ist das in Deutschland fast immer der Fall:(. Kein Mensch will Filme mit Untertiteln sehen(man müsste ja lesen) und falls doch verstehen sie den Film nicht und halten es für Schrott:(.
shareFirstly everyone here is tripping or probably didn't watch the same movie because it was hardly a "hand-shake" if anything Yu put his hand out to GRAB Yoko, therefore we would take into consideration that following this he would have pulled her out and they would have run off together. I have no clue what people are babbling about here regarding a severed penis or terrorism or maximum security prison etc. The fact is if he clearly is no longer insane (which is the case) because he no longer perceives himself to be Scorpion he wouldn't remain in the clinic. So therefore anyone with a rational mind (considering this a film) would expect the two go live off happily together. The whole purpose of the hand-grab is that they physically connected and it was him reaching out back to Yoko and her reaching out to him and them finally consummating their acknowledgment of their love for one another. Nothing complex. Other than that it would be assumed that a month or so later the two would be happily living together and married or what ever. I have no idea what "version" everyone else who's replied here has watched because they must have been watching the completely different film.
shareSeriously. I have no idea what some of these people are on about saying they shook hands as if they were exchanging some kind of pleasantry. If he were pulling her up in an effort to save her from a fall off a building, would you consider their physical contact a hand shake as well?
Yu saved Yoku. It's what he does. First from punks, next from the cult, finally from despair. Simple enough.
I recorded it from More4 last week, but my digital set top box decided to shut down for a software update between Yu fighting the men in suits inside the Zero Church headquarters and Yoko visiting him in the psychiatric hospital. Could you please tell me what I missed?
shareBerd-sena did you miss the bit where he blew up part of a building and killed a few people? Of course he wouldn't be let out of an institute just because he's got his mind back. Well, he might, but only to go to prison.
shareThe ending seemed so similar to the Bollywood trash I am subjected to watch :(
The only reason I rated the film at 9 is because of the ending which i really found to be absurd.
But as we all know this film is based on true story so probably this is how it happened in reality and director was forced to show it the same way.
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