Thrilling, and only 3 hours long! Could have reveled in the images of this film for hours more. Pretty convinced that the film purposely shows the anarchists as buffoonish amateurs so that they might step up and rise to a level of accomplishments of the women sumos. They may have failed in their dream, but Tetsu and Dai had heart and courage, and were inspired to find strength after witnessing the outsider life of the sumo wrestlers. Many reviews I've…
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Microhabitat 2017
I read an interview with the director, Jeon Go-woon, and she described this film as a satire. I'm not sure I found it funny per se, though their are moments of levity and cringe. Instead, I found it rather heartbreaking. I definitely empathized with Miso and the former bandmates she visits, the things they give up to live the lives they think they want, or rather think they should live. They sacrificed so much for a certain kind of living,…
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Ringu 2 1999
Nakata has a stronger compositional eye than Iida but, the mythology is somehow less interesting than Spiral (which is wild to me, because I'm still not sure what even happened in the first sequel!) Maybe, should have focused on just one of the two protagonists, preferably Ozaki's story as I think it's stronger (and less filled with weird psychic subplots). More potential surrounding the perpetuation of Sadako's curse and the creation of new ones (the strongest part of The Grudge…
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