A really simple short film with an interesting script. The story of a man chased by his own turd which claims to be his son. A really nice performance by David Cross. The really cool thing about this, is that it is written, directed and acted by Michel Gondry. If you are really interested on this nice 16mm independent short film, you may get "The work of the director Michel Gondry" from Palm's Directors' label.
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In the Realm of the Senses
(1976)
Flat and weak to be based on a true-life story
8 June 2003
Nagisa Oshima's "Ai no corrida" (1976) was based on a controversial true story in which a former geisha mutilated her lover's penis and was arrested wandering on the streets with it. Usually, true-story-based movies are dramatized to make the plot more intriguing and interesting.
"Ai no corrida" is a weakly-constructed story located on 1930's Japan in which a sexual - servant girl Sada (Eiko Matsuda) involves madly with her master Kichi-zo (Tatsuya Fuji) to the point where love-making becomes violent and dangerous.
The movie is interesting at first because it doesn't stop where erotica movies often do (you get really, I mean really explicit images of sex), but fails later on in making the experience interesting (you don't get touched or aroused like you may do with Jean-Jacques Annaud's "L'Amant"(1991)). After you get familiar with all the explicit visuals, the story doesn't get any better because all that happens is uninspiring, tediously-told sex. Ai no corrida's photography and art are nice though. Acting is great, specially on the really explicit sexual scenes where actors really make love and go all the way. But generally, everything is slow and flat. Many people got out from the theatre when I watched it, I don't know if it was the dullness or the explicit content.
As for the art or porn debate, I wouldn't call "Ai no corrida" a porn flick. A porn movie is usually low budget and usually made with strict commercial purposes. Nagisa Oshima took the time to construct a story (not a very structured one in my opinion but he did write a story) based on real-life facts and made a movie with it making statements on the way.
Even if the story is a little dull, you must watch it for its "cult-movie" status and because it is interesting to see that sex, even though carried out by other cultures, can turn into a dangerous obsession.
"Ai no corrida" is a weakly-constructed story located on 1930's Japan in which a sexual - servant girl Sada (Eiko Matsuda) involves madly with her master Kichi-zo (Tatsuya Fuji) to the point where love-making becomes violent and dangerous.
The movie is interesting at first because it doesn't stop where erotica movies often do (you get really, I mean really explicit images of sex), but fails later on in making the experience interesting (you don't get touched or aroused like you may do with Jean-Jacques Annaud's "L'Amant"(1991)). After you get familiar with all the explicit visuals, the story doesn't get any better because all that happens is uninspiring, tediously-told sex. Ai no corrida's photography and art are nice though. Acting is great, specially on the really explicit sexual scenes where actors really make love and go all the way. But generally, everything is slow and flat. Many people got out from the theatre when I watched it, I don't know if it was the dullness or the explicit content.
As for the art or porn debate, I wouldn't call "Ai no corrida" a porn flick. A porn movie is usually low budget and usually made with strict commercial purposes. Nagisa Oshima took the time to construct a story (not a very structured one in my opinion but he did write a story) based on real-life facts and made a movie with it making statements on the way.
Even if the story is a little dull, you must watch it for its "cult-movie" status and because it is interesting to see that sex, even though carried out by other cultures, can turn into a dangerous obsession.
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