Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Original title: 気球 クラブ, その後 ( Kimya na sākasu)
Country: Japan
Year: 2005
Director: Shion are
Mitzuko is the daughter of Gozo and Sayuri. Sayuri and Gozo are not exactly the perfect parents that you could imagine. Mitzuko is molested by her father and beaten by her mother. Tragic scenes in sumptuous walls of a wealthy Japanese family. Everything fell in the disarming scene psychology of delusional world that are Shion discovers, violent and bangs on the screen with a relentless precision. A world where everything seems fake, grotesque caricature. A world where everything becomes a metaphor for herself and a child is seen with the eyes of woman, man and spirit broken. A world in which there is no space to play but to play a role. Like all the characters of the strange circus that is a corollary to the story.
But what in reality is fake, imaginary .. and what is real? Who are the real circus? The strange beings from the stage asking for a volunteer among the public as a sacrificial victim ... or rather the beings who inhabit a world seemingly "normal" obsessions and impulses that are hidden behind a door chiselled in a wheelchair, a manuscript worn, a carry case for cello, a white coat punk, a local daring, a bottiglia di sakè..?
Strange Circus è spietato. Come un abile chirurgo, scava nella mente della protagonista mettendone a nudo le paure, le debolezze e la disperazione. Il desiderio di vendetta, il bisogno di redenzione, le profonde contraddizioni derivate da un passato non del tutto limpido e sereno.
E' un coltello affilato, un pugno nello stomaco, un'abile intrusione nella privacy di una famiglia, ma anche di chi osserva dall'esterno.. conscio del fatto che un vero "esterno" forse non esiste.
Un po' come si dice anche nel film... di quale sia la realtà in fondo non si ha certezza: cosa succederebbe se.... ?
Le possibilità infinite regalano l'escamotage perfetto per un film che mix plane of reality and identity many times .. trying to confuse, but instead of making an effective psychological portrait of actors and not.
picture perfect, wonderful director and actors sometimes over the top but never granted or unsuitable. Worthy of note is the sequence beginning and end. A film that rivedrei, and I saw many times. To remember, for sure.
Rating: 9
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
What Do They Watch In Giza
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chicken Broth Preservative
Country: Japan
Year: 2007
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Raita Kazama ( Kazuya Nakayama) is a private detective a bit 'outside the lines, a sort of Japanese Magnum PI Ferrari and without luxury. Raita Takashima ( Kuroudo Maki) is office worker, an expert in computers and hackers mid-level, quiet, sober, dutiful. Two completely different men find themselves not only to share the same name .. but also to become neighbors in one of the now dilapidated buildings so dear to the usual horror film.
What Miike is not a classic horror title, is not even a detective story and can not be defined even comical, despite the continued presence of scene, battute e personaggi che di ridicolo hanno davvero tutto.
La trama si sviluppa attorno ad una serie di omicidi piuttosto cruenti, un ufficio di polizia che brancola nel buio buttandosi alla persecuzione di 4 sospettati a caso, fra cui il nostro Raita detective. L'uomo, innocente, parte così in una rocambolesca ricerca del vero colpevole aiutato dall'assistente Nagamine e dall'involontaria partecipazione del vicino suo omonimo.
A fare da sfondo ..la figura inquietante e grottesca di un artista un po' (tanto) sessuomane e attratto dall'occulto, fedele seguace del pensiero di Rudolf Steiner (leggasi ossessionato da..) e osannato dai critici d'arte come genio incompreso dell'epoca contemporanea.
Non sta a me svelare il finale, worthy of the best American soap opera .. with twists and twists from vaguely paradoxical, to M. Night Shyamalan.
Miike surprising, haunting, fun, entertaining and leads one to think. All in one film. Even if I find Tantei height of many of his other works, it is a tribute to genre cinema that finds space in the Saturday night cold and tasteless for those who can not leave the house. A film scartabilissimo, with clear drops of inspiration ("homages" to films like The Silence of the Lambs , officially) and discounted lines, which help to significantly reduce the credibility of Japanese cinepanettoni.
Negligible.
Rating: 5
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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... even Dad is full of attention to him .. all reciprocated by George seems to recognize that its time to wonder habits .. .. .. his voice and his touch answering in his own way ..
My cravings while increasing as the belly .. where is our beloved Pasticcino.
Waiting is wonderful .. like to hear it grow, incorporate the strength of her moves that increases with time of day. There are moments where I wish time could fly to see his little face .. keep your finger in her hand, kiss his feet and adore the scent of her skin, seeing the expressions of Matt at his side .. and there are of istanti in cui vorrei fermare il tempo..perchè questa gravidanza è trascorsa finora talmente in fretta che ho paura di non riuscire a dire ..a preparare..a fare tutto quello che vorrei per lui.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Conquerors Won't Load Or Start?
Cominciamo con qualcosa di tranquillo: il trenino!
Mattia è talmente occupato a guardarsi intorno che non protesta nemmeno quando lo faccio scendere dal trenino per andare verso un'altra giostra:sono talmente tante che non sa più dove guardare!
And finally, there it was in all its rattling speed: the caterpillar apple! A green roller coaster shaped like a caterpillar that shoots up and down the rails. I am a little hesitant, I think that goes a little too fast for us and Matt seems to me a little puzzled. Despite the fears, however, take courage and I put in the wagon popin squeezing tightly, perhaps a little too strong in fact ....
The train leaves, slowly climb on top of towed from the chain and then .... viaaaaaa! The first three laps Matti is absolutely still, eyes wide and his hands clutching the bar of protection. Then, it melts on the last lap on the way down and I hear laughing like crazy! Did you like it then! And how if you like!
The rides will stay for a month ...... and who stops piùùùùùùù??