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PG-13, 141 minutes, essentially no sexual content or violence
I watched this movie about a month ago. It still haunts me.
Keeping my promise to comment on subtitled films, I feel compelled to mention this one.
It is Japanese in origin, and the director is highly regarded within the independent film making world. The story revolves around four siblings who are basically left to fend for themselves as their mother leaves for extended periods to pursue her own career (the oldest in existence) and is supposedly based on a true story to some extent. Though if you do watch the entire movie, you can see how this story is not unique in this world or the worlds of the past. To me this film deals with some of the darkest sides of the human condition from the perspective of a child. And it is this aspect that makes it so profound.
IMHO, this film is one of the best made, directed, and scripted (minimally) I have ever seen.
With that said, its effect is so disturbing on a human level, I truly hope I never see it again. While I would never have wanted to have missed seeing this film, it was so emotionally powerful, I simply would not wish to endure it a second time.
If you decide to see it, you will see the world in a slightly differrent way. And in the end, isn't that what the greatest films made are ment to do?
PG-13, 141 minutes, essentially no sexual content or violence
I watched this movie about a month ago. It still haunts me.
Keeping my promise to comment on subtitled films, I feel compelled to mention this one.
It is Japanese in origin, and the director is highly regarded within the independent film making world. The story revolves around four siblings who are basically left to fend for themselves as their mother leaves for extended periods to pursue her own career (the oldest in existence) and is supposedly based on a true story to some extent. Though if you do watch the entire movie, you can see how this story is not unique in this world or the worlds of the past. To me this film deals with some of the darkest sides of the human condition from the perspective of a child. And it is this aspect that makes it so profound.
IMHO, this film is one of the best made, directed, and scripted (minimally) I have ever seen.
With that said, its effect is so disturbing on a human level, I truly hope I never see it again. While I would never have wanted to have missed seeing this film, it was so emotionally powerful, I simply would not wish to endure it a second time.
If you decide to see it, you will see the world in a slightly differrent way. And in the end, isn't that what the greatest films made are ment to do?
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