This has everything that made me love the original. But Love Song for Vengeance as a sequel leaves me wondering why the titular character is in it at all.
Personally I think this was a better story than the original but it all feels so disconnected from Yuki. It felt like she was tossed into someone else’s story as a supporting character.
Even Kazio Koike, the creator of the manga this was adapted from, seems to agree in the Criterion…
Everyone should see this. Take your parents to see it. Take your siblings to see it. Take your cousins to see it. Take your friends and your friend’s friends to see it.
And, if you can, join a local protest.
Edit: Realizing that TIFF might be the only theatre in Canada playing this. If you live in Toronto try to watch at the theatre but otherwise I think you can find it on the Solidarity Cinema page
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Wow Christopher Nolan is an incredible writer. I know that now from the Oppenheimer script but I guess the Batman movies made me assume he was mediocre.
Everything in this movie is just genius work. The short scenes replicating the mind state of the protagonist sounds like it might be confusing for viewers but the writing is so on point, it felt like little episodes of a TV show with a cliffhanger that gets answered in the next scene.
The…
Okay so maybe I take movies too seriously and there are some movies that are just meant to be fun rides. Barbie is a very fun movie and I loved it. BUT I feel like you cannot just mention virtue signalling phrases as a self-critique while engaging in the same thing. Again MAYBE IM READING TOO MUCH INTO SOMETHING THAT SHOULD JUST BE FUN (but I’m my defence I wouldn’t have thought that deep about it if it wasn’t overtly mentioned in the movie)
