「プラチナデータ」(Platina Data) FINAL REVIEW
「プラチナデータ」Final Review
I've ended my translation for Platina Data movie and it's now time to do its review (in the next days I'll post other reviews since I've finished to watch a lot of things but I didn't have the time or I didn't feel like writing them).
Let's start talking about the story in general. I think the plot was very complicated.
When I translated the movie I thougth: "it has the same action and special effects of an american movie, it has the same difficult and delicate topic of an european movie, but it also has the same flaws of every japanese movie/drama". Then, checking the job done by my dear subber Donatella, I realized there were many things I didn't noticed while translating and... well, actually there are no flaws. Just some, but not very important. This means that the movie has an elaborate plot: every detail is very well elaborated and everything is important, if you don't notice one thing, you won't understand anything related to it (as it happened to me).
There's a good balance between suspance and adrenalin and in the pursuits the director didn't use a lot of explosions, flips and inhuman jumps as in many american movies.
There are many misteries and some have an answer, some don't (why was his DNA on Saki's body? Where did they find the NF13's DNA on the crime scene? How did the culpriit knew about Shiratori helping Kagura? Why did the Tateshina brothers have to redeem themselfs?). Well, the plot is elaborated but it has its logic and uses both agitation and calm moments, pursuits and alliances, discoveries and new questions.
Now I want to talk about actors and carachters, starting from the main one: it would be better if, who haven't seen the movie yet, won't read Nino's part, it's unavoidable to do spoilers.
Nino is my ichiban, if talking about actors. He's my favourite actor in Arashi and outside the group, I guess. He's absolutely the best in Japan. I liked the particular expressions he did for just a few seconds, full of meanings and clear (Kagura's satisfied smile, for example), but also long performances of panic (seeing the DNA research's result), annoyance (with police pursuing him everywhere at the station), fear (when jumping to excape from the police), dispair under the rain or carefreeness while drawing.
Kagura and Ryu are two different personalities and Nino's performance make it quite clear. Kagura is aloof, plotter and rational as every scientist, he has coherent manners, clear gestures and firm gaze as everyone of us living in a civil society. On the other hand, in this society Ryu avoids others' eyes, has "sully" gestures and thinks in his own way. Unless he goes from this society to his personal world, with his obsession, his paintings.
Kagura and Ryu aren't in touch, there's no visual contact between them, we see Nino's performance of Ryu or Kagura and he looks like two different persons. There's just one scene in the movie were we can see the change from the first personality to the second: Nino lowers his gaze, cryes, fights, then he raises again his gaze and he has totally different eyes, voice, timbre. Astonishing.
Talking about Etsushi, he was impressive in this movie. His role is a logical and inflexible detective, with a few facial expression, but a deep meaning in every decision he takes. He's great on set and this role was very good.
The remaining cast was good! It shocked me to see Suzuki (the mom in Kazoku Game) in this new role! What about a normal carachter for her? XD
Things that made me puzzled was those unsolved misteries and the love story. In the end it wasn't important, I think they could have shown something more, so that it would have a raison d'etre (the funny things of it is that Mizuhara Kiko appears in a number of scenese but she doesn't speak: I guess her script was a Post-IT since she had only TWO lines XD).
The soundtrack is ok, but many tracks has absolutely no sense without movie's images, that why I think it isn't a soundtrack you can listen to just because it's music. You need the images, or else it's... unsetting! The most beautiful track is the second one, Mika Kobayashi is absolutely great!
My favourite scene is when Kagura and Asama meet at the steel plant. Those two carachters seem similar (logical, stubborn and strong persons) and it seems to me that they don't really stand each other, they try to avoid each other if possible. At this moment it's the first time they met since the DNA analisys' results: their gaze met and it's like they "see" each other for the very first time.
Final vote 9/10
I've ended my translation for Platina Data movie and it's now time to do its review (in the next days I'll post other reviews since I've finished to watch a lot of things but I didn't have the time or I didn't feel like writing them).
Let's start talking about the story in general. I think the plot was very complicated.
When I translated the movie I thougth: "it has the same action and special effects of an american movie, it has the same difficult and delicate topic of an european movie, but it also has the same flaws of every japanese movie/drama". Then, checking the job done by my dear subber Donatella, I realized there were many things I didn't noticed while translating and... well, actually there are no flaws. Just some, but not very important. This means that the movie has an elaborate plot: every detail is very well elaborated and everything is important, if you don't notice one thing, you won't understand anything related to it (as it happened to me).
There's a good balance between suspance and adrenalin and in the pursuits the director didn't use a lot of explosions, flips and inhuman jumps as in many american movies.
There are many misteries and some have an answer, some don't (why was his DNA on Saki's body? Where did they find the NF13's DNA on the crime scene? How did the culpriit knew about Shiratori helping Kagura? Why did the Tateshina brothers have to redeem themselfs?). Well, the plot is elaborated but it has its logic and uses both agitation and calm moments, pursuits and alliances, discoveries and new questions.
Now I want to talk about actors and carachters, starting from the main one: it would be better if, who haven't seen the movie yet, won't read Nino's part, it's unavoidable to do spoilers.
Nino is my ichiban, if talking about actors. He's my favourite actor in Arashi and outside the group, I guess. He's absolutely the best in Japan. I liked the particular expressions he did for just a few seconds, full of meanings and clear (Kagura's satisfied smile, for example), but also long performances of panic (seeing the DNA research's result), annoyance (with police pursuing him everywhere at the station), fear (when jumping to excape from the police), dispair under the rain or carefreeness while drawing.
Kagura and Ryu are two different personalities and Nino's performance make it quite clear. Kagura is aloof, plotter and rational as every scientist, he has coherent manners, clear gestures and firm gaze as everyone of us living in a civil society. On the other hand, in this society Ryu avoids others' eyes, has "sully" gestures and thinks in his own way. Unless he goes from this society to his personal world, with his obsession, his paintings.
Kagura and Ryu aren't in touch, there's no visual contact between them, we see Nino's performance of Ryu or Kagura and he looks like two different persons. There's just one scene in the movie were we can see the change from the first personality to the second: Nino lowers his gaze, cryes, fights, then he raises again his gaze and he has totally different eyes, voice, timbre. Astonishing.
Talking about Etsushi, he was impressive in this movie. His role is a logical and inflexible detective, with a few facial expression, but a deep meaning in every decision he takes. He's great on set and this role was very good.
The remaining cast was good! It shocked me to see Suzuki (the mom in Kazoku Game) in this new role! What about a normal carachter for her? XD
Things that made me puzzled was those unsolved misteries and the love story. In the end it wasn't important, I think they could have shown something more, so that it would have a raison d'etre (the funny things of it is that Mizuhara Kiko appears in a number of scenese but she doesn't speak: I guess her script was a Post-IT since she had only TWO lines XD).
The soundtrack is ok, but many tracks has absolutely no sense without movie's images, that why I think it isn't a soundtrack you can listen to just because it's music. You need the images, or else it's... unsetting! The most beautiful track is the second one, Mika Kobayashi is absolutely great!
My favourite scene is when Kagura and Asama meet at the steel plant. Those two carachters seem similar (logical, stubborn and strong persons) and it seems to me that they don't really stand each other, they try to avoid each other if possible. At this moment it's the first time they met since the DNA analisys' results: their gaze met and it's like they "see" each other for the very first time.
Final vote 9/10