2017
Japan
The Limit of Sleeping Beauty
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Ninomiya has great taste in music. And colors beyond gray, washed out gray, and muted gray are a lovely addition to Japanese cinema. But movies for me are about people and stories. I don't need plot and nobody has to say anything, as long as there is story in their eyes. For that, you need actors First, Issey Takahashi. Not that he was a Svengali, but he tweaked off the idea and he did it as an angel. Brilliant idea, brilliantly executed Second, Niino Furuhata. The clown. You little punk, you freaked me. I love you Most, Yuki Sakurai. When I watched Tag (several times) I thought: "damn, this girl is ten times bigger than everyone else" Yuki carries this film. She can go from glamorous woman to giggling kid in a breath A film that circles back on itself. A film that is so confident in its atmosphere it can fuck with time, and with what is real and what is not, and not give a shit about it because linearity is on the other side of your brain It's a simple story I thought, for a moment, Ninomiya had ruined when Yuki comes down with a shotgun I was fist-pumping over my head when that scene ended BANG! This is how it's done. This is how you end a movie: a shootout <-> Cut to an angel Summary: Aki Oria (Yuki Sakurai) came to Tokyo ten years ago to become an actress. She is now 29-years-old and works as a magician's assistant. She has no passion for her work or goals to live for. She pretends to be hypnotized on stage. This leads to a blurred line between reality and illusion. Soon, her mental state drifts between the two mental states. |
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