Hana Yori Weirdness
So I went to go watch the Hana Yori Dango movie yesterday. It was insane amounts of weirdness, but I really really enjoyed it! This was also the first time I've endeavoured to watch a full-length Japanese movie at a theatre, without subtitles. And it went really well! My friend and I thought that we must have missed something in translation, because the ending seems too weird to be true, but, after some research, it turned out we were right. Total and complete weirdness. :P
So... Tsukushi punches a bear. A friggin BEAR. And no one but my friend and I found this hilarious. Why? Apparently, to a horde of Japanese teenage girls (the vast majority of the audience), the fact that Tsukushi punches a bear is not funny at all. :P
Also... they get chucked on a desert island... and it's all a test? What kind of screwed up families do they have? And they were happy after? Jesus, if my mum chucked me on a deserted island (which, I'm happy to say, she's not insane enough to do... just), I'd bloody kill her when I got off, no matter how in wuv with the Matsujun I was.
And then... Hanazawa Rui with a marriage licence. I didn't quite get that part - did he just get the licence to wed them, or did he become a full-blown priest or something? Please tell me it's the former! And if you tell me it's the latter, also please be kind enough to inform me of what exactly drugs the writers were taking, and where I can get them, cuz they seem super trippy.
Anyway... yes, these twists made for a great afternoon of skipped work and giggles. I totally loved it. :D
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