elclown
may 2002 se unió
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Clasificación de elclown
Kinji Fukasaku is worldwide known for his Yakuza movies, different from the typical overall view the cinema had from Yakuzas. This movie is a good example of how far some yakuzas are from honor or pride.
Fukasaku films Jingi no hakaba (Graveyard of Honor) as a mockumentary (fake documentary) which gives more emphasis to the actual yakuza situation. This movie follows the story of Ishikawa, the archetypical post-war gangster (as it's defined in the film). The character development is great, and very surprising. However, you may loose the plot in some points if you don't have an overall knowledge of the Yakuza organization.
In conclusion, a very entertaining gangster movie the Japanese way. I hugely recommend for anyone looking for the roots of most of the Japanese and Hong Kongese gangsters movies nowadays (Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, John Woo, etc.), you won't get disappointed.
Fukasaku films Jingi no hakaba (Graveyard of Honor) as a mockumentary (fake documentary) which gives more emphasis to the actual yakuza situation. This movie follows the story of Ishikawa, the archetypical post-war gangster (as it's defined in the film). The character development is great, and very surprising. However, you may loose the plot in some points if you don't have an overall knowledge of the Yakuza organization.
In conclusion, a very entertaining gangster movie the Japanese way. I hugely recommend for anyone looking for the roots of most of the Japanese and Hong Kongese gangsters movies nowadays (Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, John Woo, etc.), you won't get disappointed.
Takeshi Kitano proudly presented Dolls in the last Venice festival, where it received bad critics and reviews from the so-called cinema intellectuals and movie critics (I'd rather called them dollar-seekers). A few months later it was premiered in the Sitges Cinema Fest, I didn't expected too much, I was too wrong.
Dolls is a great movie about true love and the meaning of life. It's perfectly directed, it's perfectly acted, it's... perfect? May be, of course it depends on you. The point to criticize the movie for most of the critics, is the point that I praise: the use of the symbols is 100% aesthetic, I even believe that the real love is not the subject of the movie, but aesthetics; and the greatest of everything is that using this strange way of filming he really emphasizes the story. The traditional filming would use symbol's as a way to directly emphasize the action, but this movie uses the symbols independently from the action and that gives strength to the overall story.
The aestheticism is very dangerous, because it can turn your movie into a sum of meaningless scenes attached with a very poor story, making it very boring. However Kitano-sensei (my biggest and greatest inspiration) manages to exploit aesthetics without loosing the plot.
This is not the first time that Kitano tries to explain a story with images, in Ano natsu ichiban shizukana umi (A scene at the sea) tried something similar, but didn't fully succeed.
In conclusion, it's a masterpiece you shouldn't forget. Kitano is one of the greatest directors nowadays and this movie proves it. Whether you are a hardcore Kitano fan or just enjoy films, watch it, you won't get disappointed.
10 out of 10
Dolls is a great movie about true love and the meaning of life. It's perfectly directed, it's perfectly acted, it's... perfect? May be, of course it depends on you. The point to criticize the movie for most of the critics, is the point that I praise: the use of the symbols is 100% aesthetic, I even believe that the real love is not the subject of the movie, but aesthetics; and the greatest of everything is that using this strange way of filming he really emphasizes the story. The traditional filming would use symbol's as a way to directly emphasize the action, but this movie uses the symbols independently from the action and that gives strength to the overall story.
The aestheticism is very dangerous, because it can turn your movie into a sum of meaningless scenes attached with a very poor story, making it very boring. However Kitano-sensei (my biggest and greatest inspiration) manages to exploit aesthetics without loosing the plot.
This is not the first time that Kitano tries to explain a story with images, in Ano natsu ichiban shizukana umi (A scene at the sea) tried something similar, but didn't fully succeed.
In conclusion, it's a masterpiece you shouldn't forget. Kitano is one of the greatest directors nowadays and this movie proves it. Whether you are a hardcore Kitano fan or just enjoy films, watch it, you won't get disappointed.
10 out of 10
3 out of 10
I can't understand why this movie has such comments and ratings. I saw Mabudachi expecting it to be something else than just a boring drama, and got very disappointed.
This movie is classed as a Japanese drama about three school kids in the late 80's (even though late 90's cars go by the camera). The plot is just a giant McGuffin to criticize the fascism in the school education, and the traditional Japanese family values. However, the film isn't strong enough to cover this McGuffin, making it too obvious to be interesting and deep. It's not such a big problem of plot, but of direction. There are amazing shoots and really nice symbolic scenes through the movie, but ain't correlative with the overall film. The good scenes just seem to be attached ones with the others with 30' transitions of crappy footage, and the beautiful take s are re-shot once and again from every angle possible, making some localizations really tedious (didn't forgot to film 1" of the bridge); the contrast between dramatic scenes and slow-peaced scenes, can be used to relax the audience in order to emphasize the drama (Hana-bi, for example, uses this contrast and succeeds), but it doesn't work here.
In conclusion, the movie has a good set out, but fails when trying to develop the anecdote. As it has some nice points and a few interesting dramatic scenes it may worth a rental if you are common with Japanese cinema. However, if you are looking for somekind of good critic to the Japanese society, all Kitano movies, even Fukasaku's Battle Royale, will do far better than Bad Company.
I can't understand why this movie has such comments and ratings. I saw Mabudachi expecting it to be something else than just a boring drama, and got very disappointed.
This movie is classed as a Japanese drama about three school kids in the late 80's (even though late 90's cars go by the camera). The plot is just a giant McGuffin to criticize the fascism in the school education, and the traditional Japanese family values. However, the film isn't strong enough to cover this McGuffin, making it too obvious to be interesting and deep. It's not such a big problem of plot, but of direction. There are amazing shoots and really nice symbolic scenes through the movie, but ain't correlative with the overall film. The good scenes just seem to be attached ones with the others with 30' transitions of crappy footage, and the beautiful take s are re-shot once and again from every angle possible, making some localizations really tedious (didn't forgot to film 1" of the bridge); the contrast between dramatic scenes and slow-peaced scenes, can be used to relax the audience in order to emphasize the drama (Hana-bi, for example, uses this contrast and succeeds), but it doesn't work here.
In conclusion, the movie has a good set out, but fails when trying to develop the anecdote. As it has some nice points and a few interesting dramatic scenes it may worth a rental if you are common with Japanese cinema. However, if you are looking for somekind of good critic to the Japanese society, all Kitano movies, even Fukasaku's Battle Royale, will do far better than Bad Company.