ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU REVIEW MOVIE
The film is about a teenage boy in Japanese junior high school (early to mid teen years) who is caught up in some rather nasty circumstances that occur within his peer group, including robbery, rape and prostitution (the same set of circumstances that brought about a movie like Battle Royale, and you'll recognize some of the character types that the two films share). The film runs two and a half hours, and not much really happens plot-wise. I think it can best be described as a mood piece. Ted's Evaluation - 3 of 3: Worth watching.Ī strange and difficult film, but also an amazing one born from the world of dreams. Or do I hang my life on commercially available narrative too? Heh. Someone deep and true and of the kind we need more of if we are to make it through. Someone knew what they were doing when they put this together.
ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU REVIEW FULL
Full of life, a real, embodied life that by its appearance makes all the rest of the thing seem incredibly sad in its artificiality. Naturally, the four spindly 14-15 year olds are guided by four of the most appealing older girls in memory. Its literally footage from video cameras from the core teen boys as they go on an exotic vacation to Okinawa. All of a sudden, instead of the camera anchored in the test messages, we have a camera rooted in reality. In the center of this thing, you have a radical departure. The slightest nuance from, the smallest bit of news about, the slightest rumor concerning this singer provides ledges for a life, for a whole gaggle of lives bumping up against each other. There's an overarching cosmos that these text messages reference, an abstract, perfect world of ethereal dynamics conveyed through a goddess, a girl singer. These evoke the images we see, perhaps not as they happened, but as they are recalled. The overriding narrative is not what we see, but a collection of instant messages exchanged among the characters we see. Its the multiply nested structure that makes it work. Usually, we ignore this in film, because sex and role are inherently more cinematic.
Sexual drives and identity vacuums of course, but subordinated to the more overwhelming urge to be part of a cosmic story. Gang dynamics involving intense humiliation. You'll encounter death, teen prostitution, rape. Its a simple chord to strike, but one we all know, both from when we were that age, and from how we live now, which is only a half degree separated.
The matter of this concerns teen alienation, particularly through how we/they take things that happen and weave them into whatever simple, grand narrative is available usually through commercial pathways. You will fall into it and really be influenced, much more viscerally than say "There Will be Blood," where there is no path for us to enter the world we watch. I think you'll have to train yourself to watch films lucidly, but if you do, this will be quite effective. Its yet another dip into high school angst, overly long and structurally a bit too cute. If you are an ordinary viewer, you probably won't like this. The most significant benefit I get from writing IMDb comments is that readers lead me to them. I don't know why I bother with Hollywood when there are so many rich projects like this hiding in corners.
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