Japanese sinopses are always bad... this one looks like it's describing another series. But man... I got it thinking it would be something very different and... Box, right, I was expecting that but... Yatterman?! And Isekai truck? And there's a promise of body horror? Watched episode 3 and very curious about where this story is going.
Intense movie about obsessive love and the loss of youth due to time, can their love withstand the troubling times?…
"Actually this is probably the only movie that has Tiananmen events of 1989 covered from the students point of view. Banned in China!" Actually I would say that the event was covered from no ones point of view. It's just something that randomly happen in the middle of the movie (and it's largely reproduced as the "official western" view).
It ended like if was missing something, but maybe this is the point. Maybe that ending where nothing was happening, nothing was being said, that was the worst ending for Naoko. Suddenly that whole situation was just gone from her life like it never had happened, like nothing mattered, nothing changed. It's sad, made me pity her a bit, imagining she eventually going crazy during those sleepless nights. (maybe the why the credits are scribbled reflect this)
Yestarday I watched "One Day, You Will Reach the Sea" that for me left a lot to be desired, by change I watched this one today. There's a few similarities. Both rely on flashbacks for some character development and both are about multiple perspectives and characters not seeing each other's side. The biggest difference is that Baton is actually a good movie, with an actual (good) story to tell and knows exactly what it wants to do. I was a huge pleasant surprise!
Also, anyone else thought that Kei Takana looks and feels like Hiroyuki Sanada from the 80's? Like, in Kaito Ruby?
If you ever feel like watching this movie, don't. Instead watch "And so the Baton is Passed", because there's a few similarities. Both rely on flashbacks for some character development and both are about multiple perspectives and characters not seeing each other's side. The biggest difference is that Baton is actually a good movie, with an actual (good) story to tell and knows exactly what it wants to do.
Trailer and poster was a bit misleading, I'm disappointed.
If you ever feel like watching this movie, don't. Instead watch "And so the Baton is Passed", because there's a few similarities. Both rely on flashbacks for some character development and both are about multiple perspectives and characters not seeing each other's side. The biggest difference is that Baton is actually a good movie, with an actual (good) story to tell and knows exactly what it wants to do.
Not that good or interesting, actually. I was "baited" by the movie and poster. I thought the protagonist was gay for her friend, and she may really be, but this isn't really relevant to the story despite they showing possible kisses between the two. The movie is more one of those stories of "how you don't actually know people close to you". There's a scene when the protagonist gets really mad with her friend's boyfriend, part of the reason is that he thinks he didn't actually understood her friend and she understood her friend much better, but like we see in other scenes from her friend point of view, she actually didn't get a lot about her friend. So you start the movie thinking it's a romance (one sided), then you start to realize that it's actually about her thing, and them the movie tells you that's actually also about the consequences of the 2011 tsunami.
In the end felt like it wanted to be too many things at once without knowing where to focus (of being thematically episodic). I watched a lot of this directors movies recently, I like his movies, but he is still "not there yet", something is still lacking? Is my impression.
And btw, I don't recommend reading or watching My Broken Mariko. There isn't really much of worth on that story. "Oh, the drama, oh the suffering..." nah,
Regret start watching this.The develpment is too slow, the dramas are framing from a "too japanese angle", the…
I may be wrong (finished episode 6), but If I understood right, Kana can have children. Isn't just her uterus that is damaged? Is so if some day she and her partner wants to have a baby they can hire a surrogate mother. So I don't understand why so much drama, they are not aware of this? Is Kana's desire to gestate the child? Isn't this allowed because of the "too japanese" that I mentioned?
Regret start watching this. The develpment is too slow, the dramas are framing from a "too japanese angle", the dialogue is very stiff often also with not good acting and some other things. A big spoiler:
I'm still watching trying to finish it because I have ulterior motives, but I DO NOT RECOMMEND! Forget this, don't watch! It's stupid! The protagonist does nothing, absolutely nothing at all, she just let's everything happen to her and around her and things do happens because of "coincidences" and "destiny". E-VE-RY-WE-EK of this series. It's all super stupid, half the character actions are nonsensical. He romantic interest behavior was already very annoying in the first half but it becomes unbelievable in the second.
Really, this is bad, really bad, believe me and don't waste time with this.
But man... I got it thinking it would be something very different and... Box, right, I was expecting that but... Yatterman?! And Isekai truck? And there's a promise of body horror?
Watched episode 3 and very curious about where this story is going.
Actually I would say that the event was covered from no ones point of view. It's just something that randomly happen in the middle of the movie (and it's largely reproduced as the "official western" view).
Really good first part with a surprising second part.
It's sad, made me pity her a bit, imagining she eventually going crazy during those sleepless nights.
(maybe the why the credits are scribbled reflect this)
Also, anyone else thought that Kei Takana looks and feels like Hiroyuki Sanada from the 80's? Like, in Kaito Ruby?
Instead of watching this movie watch "And so the Baton is Passed" (like I commented above).
Instead watch "And so the Baton is Passed", because there's a few similarities. Both rely on flashbacks for some character development and both are about multiple perspectives and characters not seeing each other's side. The biggest difference is that Baton is actually a good movie, with an actual (good) story to tell and knows exactly what it wants to do.
Instead watch "And so the Baton is Passed", because there's a few similarities. Both rely on flashbacks for some character development and both are about multiple perspectives and characters not seeing each other's side. The biggest difference is that Baton is actually a good movie, with an actual (good) story to tell and knows exactly what it wants to do.
I was "baited" by the movie and poster. I thought the protagonist was gay for her friend, and she may really be, but this isn't really relevant to the story despite they showing possible kisses between the two. The movie is more one of those stories of "how you don't actually know people close to you". There's a scene when the protagonist gets really mad with her friend's boyfriend, part of the reason is that he thinks he didn't actually understood her friend and she understood her friend much better, but like we see in other scenes from her friend point of view, she actually didn't get a lot about her friend. So you start the movie thinking it's a romance (one sided), then you start to realize that it's actually about her thing, and them the movie tells you that's actually also about the consequences of the 2011 tsunami.
In the end felt like it wanted to be too many things at once without knowing where to focus (of being thematically episodic).
I watched a lot of this directors movies recently, I like his movies, but he is still "not there yet", something is still lacking? Is my impression.
And btw, I don't recommend reading or watching My Broken Mariko. There isn't really much of worth on that story. "Oh, the drama, oh the suffering..." nah,
The develpment is too slow, the dramas are framing from a "too japanese angle", the dialogue is very stiff often also with not good acting and some other things.
A big spoiler:
It's stupid!
The protagonist does nothing, absolutely nothing at all, she just let's everything happen to her and around her and things do happens because of "coincidences" and "destiny". E-VE-RY-WE-EK of this series.
It's all super stupid, half the character actions are nonsensical. He romantic interest behavior was already very annoying in the first half but it becomes unbelievable in the second.
Really, this is bad, really bad, believe me and don't waste time with this.