This two and a half hour saga was quite and interesting experience. This is basically a movie in which all the things you expect to be in a movie, aren't in the movie. There's so much build up and then he just cuts it all out. Oh yeah and its a Japanese film.
(1)T he plot of the movie is Noroki, is 28 and not yet married, her parents and her brother are very concerned that someone so old is not married (so old?). She is very modernized compared to her traditional parents and brother. She recieves a proposal from a business man but turns him down for her next door neighbor.
(2) The acting was so great especially by the two small children who were so believeable as brothers. And they responded to the other actors so realistically. I really enjoyed watching them. As I said in an earlier post it's very hard to critique acting in a foreign film. But the children were just children and stood out as being natural.
(3) It's very slow movie, but the aesthetics are so beautiful -- you dont mind staring at it for a while. The use of framing is genius in this movie. The architecture of the Japanese house was really dramatized and it was beautiful. The deep depth of focus present a realistic point of view
(4) Although the message of the movie is very bleek. That no matter what you do you will never be happy it was still just a great insight to the world of Japanese traditional culture. Overall I give it a 4 out of 5. It looses points on its slow pacing and the use of ellipses which you miss important story details. I know these are intentional but it's STILL annoying.
Overall despite it being long I really enjoyed myself.
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