I had no real inkling of what the movie was about going in aside from some basic synopsis but wow this floored me, I enjoyed this thoroughly the whole way through it has a tone and style of humour/writing that is totally up my alley.
I'm sure a lot went over my head especially on the black experience but the whole idea of writing, making something and selling it. Commercializing what you make as product, appealing to a certain audience…
Genuinely disturbing at points with some radical ideas that it executes very well, though I think if it was pulled together a bit more it'd be a genuine perfect movie!
The idea of a virus that deals with communication, language and understanding is terrifying and i think on a meta level the films focus on sound, voice and constrained visuals helps push this! Some segments where you hear what's happening on the radio are genuinely terrifying, the lack of knowledge…
In some ways I think Midori is overblown, it isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be, though parts are certainly excessively graphic and hard to watch ... those poor puppies.
That aspect of it, it's taboo nature, it's shock value is simultaneously the least and most interesting thing about it. On the least interesting end it spawns endless waves of surface level discussion about its contents, but that discussion as well as the discussion surrounding whether or…
Really really good, especially in the audio/visuals, the nods to the OG Kamen rider are really nice and I love how they adapt effects, music, sounds and general fight choreography! I think sadly as much as I love those aspects I came away from the film kinda disappointed because with some tightening up it could have been an easy 10/10, it got so close to hitting me but just didnt. It's emotional moments didnt quite land, i feel mainly because…
