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1/10
Skipping through memory lane
ariadem20 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
For a movie about other movies this won't attain much cult status and will probably be forgotten a week or so, I'll be perfectly honest, if you're not a South American or a European girl who's misguided enough to watch emo movies like these and expect people to act this quirky irl, then you won't like Japanese movies one bit. The only Japanese movie I can recommend is ikigami, it's fun and heartbreaking, and if you're a fan boy or girl, death note and the ultimate gambler, but the rest? You're better off watching Stephen chow movies.

Do you know why no one likes French movies? The same reason as Japanese movies, because instead of coming up something original they resort to; self conscious narrative which we have to sidetrack with the main story, 4th wall tropes, nostalgia, an abundance of childish "emotional" segments which consist of lying supine on the bed together talking how life is meaningless, teens acting cool and indifferent... Yada Yada Yada... Its boring, it's half baked, it's unoriginal, whatever things stick nowadays they flung to the wall. Like French movies it takes too long like a heart breaker joke that no one would care to listen let alone think.

I skipped after 20 minutes and everything I expected just came true. Its so bland I guessed what would happen each segment and it did. For a movie about other movies ending like fight club, be half the man you are "inspired" from instead of giving examples of it first.
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10/10
Eye-popping, intelligent, and twisty
zelena337 September 2022
This superb Japanese coming-of-age-in-dystopia drama is absurdly low-balled in the IMDB ratings because... it's maybe not for everyone. It is challenging and not really aiming to please wide audiences, but it will become a cult classic for sure.

With strong echoes of at least two other films from the past 25 years (to the point of blatant homage - to mention them would be a spoiler) this film makes some pretty abrupt twists in tone that didn't come off quite as well on screen as they did in the director's head.

Still, it's visually rich (hat tip, Chris Doyle) and with strong creativity in sound design, it plops you right into the sharp pain of survival in the 2022 economy for 19 year olds, but also the pain of trying to have friends, love, and meaning in your life with the ****show world we live in now.

Any film this unusual is a rare treat and makes this a must see for fans of Asian cinema, although "movie" fans might as well pass.
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