From: dub kult
Message:
iain
> karl berlin
> > Visually appealing, and the soundtrack is good but everything else
> > sucks.
>
> Compare it to almost every other film at the local multiplex just now
> (with the notable exception of 'Big Fish') and you'll see it's pretty
> far from sucking.
>
> > Hey everyone, Japanese people are SHORT, isn't that funny! He has
> > to adjust the shower head, its a riot!They have bars where women dance
> > not wearing a lot, how bizarre!They eat strange food!
>
> I don't think those situations were applied strictly for comedic effect,
> but to show how alienated the characters are to their surroundings.
> Misfits in life, misfits in location.
exactly. and what's more, it was more a comment of how they percieved it
rather than how it actually was. japanese people are not *that* short!
and there was something really surreal and unsettling about the menu in
the restaurant.
all in all i thought it was a pretty authentic film - dealing with those
feelings of separateness and misfiture (i think i just made that word
up?) that we all feel, sometimes more than other times. it draws
parrallels on the very real mid-twenties crisis and the more obvious
mid-life crisis.
the emotions of no direction and being cut off from the world. there's a
lamb song, hearts and flowers, that says "sometimes i'm so alone, even
in your arms" which is also abotu a similar thing.
there was geniune love between charlotte and her husband, but somehow,
that still wasn't *It*. it wasn't enough.
bob's charming and carismatic meloncholy is all that's left after 25
years of post-mid-twenties-crisis-driven acceptance . he feels he's
pretty much done - all the cards have been delt and he's just waiting
for the game to play out.
it wasn't a love story at all. they found each other in their solitute.
the sexual tension was their but that was it. it was more about a
contact between 2 people. a real one.
what i got from the end of the film is that it's about saying it. not
every interaction and relationship follows the social script, which was
why their 1st goodbye was so awkward. there was something there. they
both new it. but all the usual patterns of how to say goodbye suddenly
weren't appropriate.
but bob had spent a whole life of not saying it. what's actually so. and
it was eating him up.
then he saw that and he saw his opportunity and he acted.
what he said is unimportant, it's just the fact that he said it. it was
graceful and it was authentic.
it's the only film i've seen that deals with such a simple fragile
emotion in such a mature and honest way.
