The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.
1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already.
2. Please post your favourite film of last week.
3. NO TV SHOWS!
4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films without using the spoiler tag.
5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!
Here are some great comments from last week's thread:
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Harakiri (1962) – Dir. Masaki Kobayashi. My first Samurai movie as well as my first Japanese one! Got to see it at the cinema which is just wonderful. The visual and overall technical aspects manage to leave an impression. The composition, camera movement, sound and overall built tension is just wonderful, and makes the story that much more powerful. A very powerful story about life post-war, poverty, class differences and of course, the façade of the honor of the samurai. It is filled with many aspects and themes, but also functions as a sort of revenge story about family while deconstructing all of the things mentioned above. Like I said earlier, this is my first go at a samurai movie as well as Japanese, but despite the fact that its environment and culture is all Japanese, I found the movie to be very universal when it came to the story and themes. Like many different great directors, Kobayashi uses a genre(the samurai genre in this case), to explore the human condition and human tragedy, as well as society in general. 9/10
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Hope - Man this movie hit me right in the feels, it is about an ordinary korean family, father, mother and 8 year old daughter So-won. One day So-won is a little late for school, runs into some stranger who then brutally tortures and rapes her. She gets found, brought to a hospital and from there we experience the journey of this family and how they deal with this horrific incident. We get confronted with some really tough situations, through the eyes of these three people ofc, be it the media attention the family gets, the trial, the emotional scars and healing, it can be a really depressing movie indeed. But there is also "hope", the film doesn't forget that even in the worst times there can be happiness found. I actually started tearing up a few times during this movie, both from sadness but also from heartwarming human interactions, it's is really good at pressing the right buttons if you will (some might call it manipulative, i think it was handled beautifully though). The acting of the main cast is great (very good child actress!), there is no flashy cinematography or production value going on but this grounds the movie and makes sure the viewer feels closer to the family. Terrific film! 9/10
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The Twilight Samurai (2002). Patched Robe. This is a wonderful film. The world building and attention to detail is similar to that of a Kurosawa period samurai film, but the story and how it presents itself, unfurls with a more understated and serene tempo. The main character, Iguchi Seibei, is presented as a simple man, recently widowed, and clinging to a meager existence while raising his daughters and elderly mother alone. He’s a man with a certain amount of secrets, but he finds his own dignity in doing the best he can, in the position he has, without ever aspiring to something higher, much to the consternation and ridicule of family members or co-workers. We find out later, that he has exceptional sword-fighting skill, which he has seldom inclination to show or prove. Things change when the sister of a childhood friend returns, whom he’s always truly loved, but has had to pacify his emotions in the guise of restraint, due to their difference in social status. This is despite the fact that their families come from the same samurai class—whose entire existence is nearing its end, right at the coming onset of the Meiji Restoration. There’s a clear allegory made between Seibei and the samurai class as a whole. His work colleagues disparagingly call him “Twilight” due to his tendency for immediately rushing home to take care of his family as night approaches—obviously mirroring the inevitable decline of the samurai as a whole. It’s so obvious, that it’s pointed out once or twice, and then you don’t even really think about it after that. There’s much better symbolism regarding a final conflict that he has to physically resolve. I’ve criticized several recent movies I’ve seen, for having a penultimate confrontation become overpowered by its metaphoric meaning rather than how it works as a story. Finally, in this film, it’s portrayed much more fluidly as an outcome of how the story naturally unfolds. It’s essentially a confrontation mirroring his own inner conflict; for his stoic devotion to rigid (and dying) social rules, and the raging maelstrom of desires buried within his own heart. This type of confrontation (both inside and out) can ultimately leave you wounded or even worse, but is necessary for inexorable change to occur. There’s several things you can analyze about this film afterwards, thematically and symbolically, but honestly that’s not what makes this film special. What makes this special is the intricate care shown in all its aspects: from the world-building, to its quiet, subdued beauty, and to the intimately-drawn characters, whose converging paths all feel like the unavoidable conflux borne from the struggle between duty, desire, and the binding restraints of a much larger social and natural order.
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