Andrei Tarvosky's Stalker first came to mind when watching this movie. It holds a eerie presence and little to no music was played during the entire runtime of this movie. It is cold, brutal, and silent, just like a personality of a serial killer that we often see in film a lot like Silence of the Lambs and Se7en.
Cure is a 1997 Japanese thriller directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (not related to Akira Kurosawa for those who were wondering) that takes place in modern time Japan. Another murder happens in the quiet streets of Japan, only to leave another mark across the victim's throat as it happened with the other killings before this. The murderer was caught, he had no idea that he did it. Why? Who knows? A man with amnesia walks around Japan wondering what he's even doing. Nothing makes sense in the first few minutes of the film until you watch the end.
Cure breeds a new version of your usual David Fincher serial killer thriller. As I said earlier, it has only a few songs played throughout the entire 111 min runtime. The film can just run by itself and it manages to succeed without the aid of music because a movie can still be scary without music. I'm pretty sure that Kiyoshi used Stalker (1979) as an influence with the cinematography where a lot of the shots are always long and silent and the scary truth about it just plays out for the viewers to see. To be honest, I haven't even heard of this movie until Eureka's Masters of Cinema Blu Ray of this came out. The film is a powerful piece of work that somehow got lost between the train from Japan to America. Nobody cared for this movie at all and people still don't care for it now. It's a shame that I haven't found out about this movie until recently. Many people who've seen this film already consider this a horror film, I wouldn't go so far as that in my opinion. It certainly holds a few well known horror elements like gore and that typical psycho murder moments but in the end, it's not trying to be like other horror films and it's more of a thriller since Silence of the Lambs also has horror elements but wasn't intended to be like a horror film.
The film holds an interesting message about typical human nature and I often think about Sion Sono's controversial Suicide Club (2000, 3 years after Cure) to this. It also uses happy music for murder scenes also which stood to me. There is more to learn about in the movie than just reading a message without experience. X
Cure is a 1997 Japanese thriller directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (not related to Akira Kurosawa for those who were wondering) that takes place in modern time Japan. Another murder happens in the quiet streets of Japan, only to leave another mark across the victim's throat as it happened with the other killings before this. The murderer was caught, he had no idea that he did it. Why? Who knows? A man with amnesia walks around Japan wondering what he's even doing. Nothing makes sense in the first few minutes of the film until you watch the end.
Cure breeds a new version of your usual David Fincher serial killer thriller. As I said earlier, it has only a few songs played throughout the entire 111 min runtime. The film can just run by itself and it manages to succeed without the aid of music because a movie can still be scary without music. I'm pretty sure that Kiyoshi used Stalker (1979) as an influence with the cinematography where a lot of the shots are always long and silent and the scary truth about it just plays out for the viewers to see. To be honest, I haven't even heard of this movie until Eureka's Masters of Cinema Blu Ray of this came out. The film is a powerful piece of work that somehow got lost between the train from Japan to America. Nobody cared for this movie at all and people still don't care for it now. It's a shame that I haven't found out about this movie until recently. Many people who've seen this film already consider this a horror film, I wouldn't go so far as that in my opinion. It certainly holds a few well known horror elements like gore and that typical psycho murder moments but in the end, it's not trying to be like other horror films and it's more of a thriller since Silence of the Lambs also has horror elements but wasn't intended to be like a horror film.
The film holds an interesting message about typical human nature and I often think about Sion Sono's controversial Suicide Club (2000, 3 years after Cure) to this. It also uses happy music for murder scenes also which stood to me. There is more to learn about in the movie than just reading a message without experience. X