Watching “Not Quite Dead Yet”. Her performance was great. Very funny. However her performance in Third Murder…
Agreed! Always seem to notice her face around. Lol I didn't even know it was her in "Not Quite Dead Yet", she did a great job of selling the rebellious nature!
Gosh I'm truly in awe of Kusanagi, he has superb versatile acting, able to do comedy and serious movies with great nuance. He has a strong, distinctive face which affords him star quality too! And he pretty much never looks like he ages lol, lucky. Would really like to watch his earlier projects, but for really love Midnight Swan, Typhoon Family and Peperoncino. Love how all of his projects are always interesting and full of lustre!
Recently finished this too and I had a lot of inconsistencies that were nearly eclipsed by the spellbindingness of the film as stated in your review.
Ichika going back to her mom does seem illogical. Yet, given how Nagisa, Tokyo and Ballet was conducive, inspirational and a safe place for her to grow, it was new and uncertain. In that sense, it would be understandable why Ichika would have chosen to return to her mom and wait it out. Thats about the only thing I could justify.
You put it aptly about Nagisa wanting to passively commit suicide. She had taken all the necessary precaution and saved up all this while for the sex-changing surgery only to end up in a dilapidated, mortifying situation on the floor of her apartment, barely able to clean after herself. I read somewhere that this is because she felt at odds with her inability to be a complete mother to Ichika due to her not being a biological female. Her having to use her dead name in her work in a warehouse further pushed her for the need to have a sex-change surgery when she was ept enough as a mother to Ichika.
Man, your insight into Rin's departure did strike a chord. I certainly didn't see it that way on watching but I now can see how it value adds to her character arc and unfortunate demise. She truly did love ballet, yet it was ballet and simply not being able to be the best despite trying her best that caused her downfall. Pretty eerie.
While I agree that the last third did come off very inconsistent, it could be the case where it was written with a realism that would maybe only be relevant to a few people. In a way I wouldn't have done so perhaps. But ultimately is what makes this movie worthy of a pretty high rating. It fleshes out the human condition in a fairly realistic manner highlighting the idiosyncracies that we as people commit, just under different circumstances.
Ichika going back to her mom does seem illogical. Yet, given how Nagisa, Tokyo and Ballet was conducive, inspirational and a safe place for her to grow, it was new and uncertain. In that sense, it would be understandable why Ichika would have chosen to return to her mom and wait it out. Thats about the only thing I could justify.
You put it aptly about Nagisa wanting to passively commit suicide. She had taken all the necessary precaution and saved up all this while for the sex-changing surgery only to end up in a dilapidated, mortifying situation on the floor of her apartment, barely able to clean after herself. I read somewhere that this is because she felt at odds with her inability to be a complete mother to Ichika due to her not being a biological female. Her having to use her dead name in her work in a warehouse further pushed her for the need to have a sex-change surgery when she was ept enough as a mother to Ichika.
Man, your insight into Rin's departure did strike a chord. I certainly didn't see it that way on watching but I now can see how it value adds to her character arc and unfortunate demise. She truly did love ballet, yet it was ballet and simply not being able to be the best despite trying her best that caused her downfall. Pretty eerie.
While I agree that the last third did come off very inconsistent, it could be the case where it was written with a realism that would maybe only be relevant to a few people. In a way I wouldn't have done so perhaps. But ultimately is what makes this movie worthy of a pretty high rating. It fleshes out the human condition in a fairly realistic manner highlighting the idiosyncracies that we as people commit, just under different circumstances.