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11-11-2014, 05:45 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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somebody at work recently recommended this to me. i might have to give it a watch. i don't know why but if i see the same film or show or whatever pop up twice from two unrelated sources it makes me more interested in seeing it.
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11-11-2014, 05:52 PM | #25 (permalink) |
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Similar vibe, but it's taken to the extreme. Almost unbelievably so. The camera rarely moves, and the majority of shots are at ground level to reflect traditional etiquette in Japan where they sit on the floor to eat. Certainly wouldn't be surprised if he was a major influence for Haneke.
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11-11-2014, 11:02 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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Another great newer film is "Cure" (1997). It's a horror movie, but there is something unique about this film. It's difficult to put your finger on what it exactly is though. It has a beautiful, but subtle visual style (as do all Kiyoshi Kurosawa movies), some extremely powerful scenes, great acting and the story does have a lot of well known elements, but it seems like the movie mostly plays with them, hinting at something different at the bottom of it altogether.
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Considering the theme primarily deals with death, that might be the reason. Death doesn't seem to bother me or get me emotional in movies. Good to hear of someone else who's seen Okuribito, though. |
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11-12-2014, 09:56 AM | #29 (permalink) | |
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Ghost in the Shell
Easily my favorite animated film, the Ghost in the Shell franchise is an unparalleled dive into techno-capitalism, evolution, the nature of consciousness, the nature of information & intelligence, cyber-security, telecommunications politics, cyberization, techno-poverty, globalism & digital economics, the evolution of food and drugs, and nearly any other subject regarding the evolution of a technological civilization that you can possibly imagine. The original film is fantastic in both English and Japanese, the sequels are almost equally as enjoyable, and the episodic series is massively ambitious and thoroughly enjoyable start to finish. Absolutely essential viewing for anyone fascinated by the evolution of our species & technology. And I'm a real sucker for Japanese cyberpunk films. Tetsuo: The Iron Man Legendary exercise in style and atmosphere. Extremely abrasive, dark, loud, obnoxious, cold, alienating, and relentlessly absurd. A soundtrack designed to get under your skin and shift around like a terrible itch, unsettling stop motion animation, and countless scenes of unsettling metal fetishism. Rubber's Lover Psychologically jarring, confusing, and surreal. An oftentimes repulsive mixture of cyberpunk, science fiction, technophilia, and primal claustrophobic horror. 964 Pinocchio Sickening love story between an escaped lobotomized cyborg sex slave and a psychopathic homeless girl with no memory. Relentlessly disgusting, dark, unsettling, and uncomfortably comedic.
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