Goddamn it, I was so close to really really digging this, and there are extremely diggable things in it, there is some real solid gold in this film, it just needs aggressive editing, (I don’t care about how long it is), but that’s par for the Troma course.
That landlord song early in the film is top notch. The music was awesome all around anyway.
“Whose the wiser when the hymen breaks?”
It was very lovely that whenever anyone was in a bed with morning light on them they were touching or wrapped up with or holding hands with another human being.
In fact, most of the touching was very lovely and very kindhearted.
I also really loved the general camera placements and smooth camera movements throughout.
The music was great, too, especially during the “blue light” scene.
This is the kind of film that may be more impactful the more times I see it and/or think about it.
This is normally not my type of movie, but my ten year old and eight year old wanted to see this. So I spent a couple weeks watching all 26 episodes of the anime series, then getting to see my first subtitled, foreign film with my kids!!!
We had soooooooo much fun together.
I’ll never know if this is a good film or not because the incredible high feeling I have right now has very little to do with the film.
This and Eyes Wide Shut would be a wonderful double feature on the assumptions that men have about women and how those assumptions serve to only hurt the male ego, which in turn makes men feel they have permission to hurt women (or wildly indulge in male fantasies that justify his careless and bad behavior so that the man can even out the pain he believes the woman has put him through).
Akerman is a genius and slowly becoming my great love.
This could have been called ‘As You Like’ or ‘I Know Why the Cage Bird Sleeps’.
