Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.

[darkeyedwolf]

Stolen from darlas_mom: Which random people from different disciplines would YOU like to lock up together and force to collaborate on group projects?

Kudo Kankuro and Takashi Miike. Can you imagine? It'd be the most insane slasher comedy ever. Teenage schoolgirls would prostitute themselves to musical transvesite samurai in fedoras who play baseball,

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Umm . . . extra-long comment again ^^

[flange5]

Not that scene, but complaints in general. >__> I get so tired of the bitching about "overacting" and "overdramatizing." Have those people ever seen a fucking jdrama before? I'm sorry the lead actors use more than eyedrops to convey action.

I've seen a little whinging about the acting, butt seriously--if they have seen another jdrama, particularly one with youngish males? I don't know what the hell they're smoking, because this verges on brilliantly subtle and nuanced compared to that. And actually, it's pretty good in general. Do I occasionally flinch when Toma makes that weird mouth open and to the side thing that every jdorama actor playing a quasi-punk does? Sure--but now I recognize it as an acting convention and I go with the flow . . .

And I don't think this is because I'm biased--but except for a few moments in the first episode or two, I have really thought that Ohno's Naruse is pretty freaking awesome. It hurts me. regularly. And it develops subtly. I'm not really sure I've seen that in a jdorama before (but my exposure is pretty limited, so . . .

Naruse made a point of laying everything out and Naoto looked pretty shaken, and we've seen him crushed with guilt when he learned of Hideo's mom's death. I'm not sure what's left for him to do. He's admitted his wrongdoing, come clean to Shiori and co-workers, tried to give up his career to do the right thing, and repeatedly offered himself to both Yamano and Naruse for whatever punishment they deem fit. What else does Naruse want from him?

Hmm . . . I'm not sure I really articulated what I meant--we've seen Naoto get crushed by guilt, etc, but Naruse really hasn't. Every time Naruse sees him he's still if full narcissism mode . . . and I think Naoto largely played into Naruse's hands in that first confrontation--which was awesome, btw . . . He did the emotional impetuous thing (and god I loved that punch ^^"), and Naruse got to play the cold and impassive god. But I guess what I mean about Naoto is that he really doesn't seem to connect that this is the guy whose brother he killed. Sure, he came sort of clean to his coworkers, and apparently at some point, "tried" to see Naruse's mom, but he's never actually had to directly confront the person he damanged--and when he does, --sure, I don't expect him, especially in the context of Souda's body barely even being cool yet, to really make that connection-- but it's been a little more time, and it doesn't seem to have sunk in that (ok sure, it's not justified, the level he's gone to) but that this is a person he completely screwed over and put into terrible pain.

I think it was much easier for him to make that connection when such a person was an abstract concept--"the killer" when he's in the bar. But confronted with a person, and a person he's been fooled by, he goes straight into self-righteousness. I would be happier withat least some sort of reflective moment on Naoto's part. Do I think a sincere apology (and not the begging thing we saw earlier, which wasn't about really feeling penitent, but rather wanting it all to stop) would appease NAruse really, even if he might think so but it might appease me ^^" Just a little. And I'm not looking for a formal apology . . . just a moment when he pieces all of it together. Then he can go and tackle Naruse censored thoughts and we can have tumbling in the rain and a satisfying death scene of 2.