Original title:
Rampo Jigoku Year: 2005
Country: Japan Directed
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| Akio Jissoji | (episode "Kagami jigoku") | |
| Atsushi Kaneko | (episode "Mushi") | |
| Hisayasu Sato | (episode "Imomushi) | |
| Suguru Takeuchi | (episode "Kasei no grease) |
4 episodes by as many stories 江 戸 川 乱 歩 (Edogawa Ranpo, real name 平井 太郎, Taro Hirai), contradictory Japanese author lover Westerners who go to novels from yellow to Edgar Allan Poe.
undoubted star of the film is Tadanobu Asano in the role of detective in charge (officially and unofficially) to resolve cases at the edge of the surreal and impossible.
Whatever the sick imagination of the stories represented here, what seems to emerge from the characters is a general feeling of malaise, loss of identity and the search for a new dimension in which to live in peace with themselves but not so much with that that you can not change its existence in extreme attempts to mutation, mutilation, alteration, immortality.
A film that speaks of hardship, loneliness, pain .. but also love, as may appear distorted or ill.
A movie that makes real the concept of Art and the declines in 4 new forms, frightening and fascinating at the same time disturbing. A film
inconvenient, uncomfortable. An alien
film tremendously and perhaps alienating alienation is, however, that daily bread, slamming in his face and making us aware of what actually pre-exists in the depths of every human being: the only excuse is probably the inability to give relief, or 'absolute lack of control otherwise.
A man who can no longer distinguish reality from reflection and eventually vanish in the mirror in which it would like to live, a woman who loves and hates allo stesso tempo il marito in maniera così distorta e sbagliata da distruggerne il corpo per poi seguirlo nel dolore, in comunione con un concetto di arte che va oltre alla perfomance, oltre all'opera pura; un uomo che soffre terribilmente di fronte ad ogni minimo contatto col prossimo ma torturato dall'amore folle per una donna, che lo porta ad un estremo gesto di annullamento e di trasposizione in quel mondo di sogni e illusioni che, anche se in modo tragicamente diverso, compare in tutti gli episodi.
Il tutto legato dalla figura di Tadanobu, uomo in conflitto con la propria esistenza e la propria definizione, uomo in perenne lotta con l'odio per la moglie inferma e l'odio per un se stesso che non basta più, che non esiste più se non nella duality of man and woman that we spot in the first minutes of this amazing film.
Rampo Noir is not an easy film to digest, I do not even call the film .. probably in a mad search for a definition of a work of art is precisely this path to hit the "public" much of its contents.
Magistrale, despite the simplicity of a director is not always up to the poetry of the script.
terribly difficult, ugly at times .. but missed.
Rating: 7.5
