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Never seems to know if it wants to be a tribute to French New Wave, a time piece about uprising in the 60s, or an exploration of incest. As a result, nothing is particularly well developed, and scenes begging for controversy lead to a sudden non-ending.
Watching the finale of Twin Peaks, and now this, has been an overwhelming experience. I'm filled with so many emotions, some of them indescribable, and there's somehow the feeling that I chose the perfect time to go through this. Fire Walk with Me, when compared to the series, is a ghastly and raw experience: after hearing countless descriptions of and theories about what happened to Laura Palmer, we finally see it all up close. All fascades are torn off. There's…
A peacefully moving look at family and life. The mundane is turned into something beautiful; the Jian family's day-to-day challenges take on a subtle whisper of meaning, and those things we normally see as boring—business shirts, middle-class apartments and family gatherings—become testaments to a resigned love, to the sacrifices we make for life to move on. And so it is with the difficulties, like a grandmother's coma or a long-lost love. Lightning gives way to life, and life gives way to beauty.
"There's no cloud, no tree, that isn't beautiful. So we should be too"
What is humanity? And how much can it endure?
Kobayashi explores these questions through Kaji, a pacifist sent to manage a labor camp in Manchuria. As the grave realitied of WW2 reach him, his humanism is thrown into crisis. It seems that he is left with two options: to throw away his humanity, guaranteeing his own safety, or to sacrifice himself for the prisoners. The movie introduces a wealth of characters, yet ultimately, they are all there to test Kaji's…