adelbert

Bad? How we can give an opinion about a Japanese film without knowing their cultural background? As I already said in my opinions about films out of the US, there is a fundamental lack of history about nations, languages, women and man. How is this possible? Such a lack ? I don't known, but I think the US intellectual people has to understand that not only the US exists in this world. By the way I love your culture and I would not give the impression that I am saying something badly about your people. But the lack in appreciating other cultures is astonishing! Why, for gods sake! Why always like it looks the supremacy of one culture over an other? The ballad of Narayama is just the opposite. Let's talk about the export of pornography out of the US?

Where is the human person who is smoking his sigarette? There in the street on the LED panels of an another car. He is hiding his own face with his hat in the hope that nobody has seen him, only a "translation" of wat he perhaps could be: an ordinary person, watching his TV, looking his digital clock, because time is here also translated in the time of ohthers: their "own" time. Deep packed in there loss; there, are only their 'hypocritical' answers following the rules of etiquette (and money) without a personal meaning. Translation is here not a communicating with a an other person, trough an interpreter, but a betrayal where verbal and nonverbal communication is constantly contradicting each other. The hell, here, everthing is not what it looks, etc.

Educated by the jesuits, we have there learn to look at cinema; to have ears, tears, eyes, a body to "full" a film. We have seen a lot of films withouth any censorship. But , here, also trough the very unnatural playing of the people on the scene, I could understand but a little trough reading the commentaries of the film users? Why? The story is not worked out.Some actors are totally miscasted, without any feeling the deep drama of this film. A lot of story lines are not worked out. Why, who, where, etc were the questions I constantly myself was asking. No, not a film: a lot of very thinny dreads to what could haven been a good film. Why the Iranian officer was there in de US? What was the contact between the family members of the girl? Why shot the officer, at this distance, a child? Why? Why? Why?