4600 million years of love: big bang love juvenile A
I just came back from watching the movie and I think I can't fall asleep unless I properly write my thoughts out. They're just spilling out. The trailer says in Japanese that it is "beautiful" and "sad", 2young men's love story. English is so inadequate sometimes - the direct translation can't bring across the naunces of the meanings of the words that Japanese so aptly does!
I don't know why I was so attracted to this movie. It's homoerotic and dark, and almost undecipherable. The first time I saw the trailer was at cine leisure on saturday when the CG went there for dinner. I saw the trailer while going down the stairs, saw the snap shots of it, saw Matsuda Ryuhei, and was hooked. I knew immediately that I wanted to watch it - yet I somehow knew that there won't be anyone to watch it with. Thank God my brother watched it with me. I think there were about 3 girls in the cinema? The rest were guys.
The show starts with a middle-aged guy sitting in a dark corner, reading from a book. He reads aloud some science-fiction/physics stuff about light and how if you travel 1 light year away you can see 1 year into the past etc, and if you travel 1000light years away...you'll see___?? And then you'll see different things if you look to the left and to the right? I totally didn't get this part, although I know it definitely has some reference to the 4.6 billion years of love part. This time element is also always in the story, especially near the end when the mystery is solved, there is a sort of constant reminder of the time, down to the seconds. Even when Jun and kazuki were "greeting" the warden, the warden talked about time - the past and how you cannot change it.
Anyway, the middle-aged guy sits at an angle neither facing the camera nor away from it. The lighting casts a shadow of solitude and his cigarette smoke lingers after he has stamped the cigaratte out...
There's a cut to the scene of a grandfather-figure talking to a skinny young boy, who is topless and drenched in sweat. The boy is so skinny that you can see his heart beating under his ribcage. The grandfather-figure asks he boy "what kind of man do you want to become?" and this question is repeated during one of the prision scenes, before there is a strange scene of Jun sitting on the prison floor alone and distraught, and when he touches his heart, blood streams down his loose yellow prision uniform, making a river of blood on the floor. The young boy is silent and nervous. Then the grandfather-figure guy tells the boy to go to the ocean to purify himself and then he will meet a man there, a man who will show him how to become a man, his rite of passage. The entire background of the scene with the grandfather-figure and the young boy is blood red and brutal, adding the to tense atmosphere. There's flashes to a scene of the man whom the young boy will meet - masculine, topless and dressed only in a bright red skirt which is ripped to shreds. This man dances brutally and erotically, mesmerizing me. His tattoo gives him a raw and somewhat primal aura which adds to his character. He has no name, and his dance is magnificent. The first bit of homoerotism in the film is definitely from this scene, and the grandfather-figure says that the man will lunge at the young boy's throat with his manhood...? The young boy gulps, and the background is black/darkness.
There is a cut to Jun in the prison cell strangling the already-dead Kazuki.
I don't know why I was so attracted to this movie. It's homoerotic and dark, and almost undecipherable. The first time I saw the trailer was at cine leisure on saturday when the CG went there for dinner. I saw the trailer while going down the stairs, saw the snap shots of it, saw Matsuda Ryuhei, and was hooked. I knew immediately that I wanted to watch it - yet I somehow knew that there won't be anyone to watch it with. Thank God my brother watched it with me. I think there were about 3 girls in the cinema? The rest were guys.
The show starts with a middle-aged guy sitting in a dark corner, reading from a book. He reads aloud some science-fiction/physics stuff about light and how if you travel 1 light year away you can see 1 year into the past etc, and if you travel 1000light years away...you'll see___?? And then you'll see different things if you look to the left and to the right? I totally didn't get this part, although I know it definitely has some reference to the 4.6 billion years of love part. This time element is also always in the story, especially near the end when the mystery is solved, there is a sort of constant reminder of the time, down to the seconds. Even when Jun and kazuki were "greeting" the warden, the warden talked about time - the past and how you cannot change it.
Anyway, the middle-aged guy sits at an angle neither facing the camera nor away from it. The lighting casts a shadow of solitude and his cigarette smoke lingers after he has stamped the cigaratte out...
There's a cut to the scene of a grandfather-figure talking to a skinny young boy, who is topless and drenched in sweat. The boy is so skinny that you can see his heart beating under his ribcage. The grandfather-figure asks he boy "what kind of man do you want to become?" and this question is repeated during one of the prision scenes, before there is a strange scene of Jun sitting on the prison floor alone and distraught, and when he touches his heart, blood streams down his loose yellow prision uniform, making a river of blood on the floor. The young boy is silent and nervous. Then the grandfather-figure guy tells the boy to go to the ocean to purify himself and then he will meet a man there, a man who will show him how to become a man, his rite of passage. The entire background of the scene with the grandfather-figure and the young boy is blood red and brutal, adding the to tense atmosphere. There's flashes to a scene of the man whom the young boy will meet - masculine, topless and dressed only in a bright red skirt which is ripped to shreds. This man dances brutally and erotically, mesmerizing me. His tattoo gives him a raw and somewhat primal aura which adds to his character. He has no name, and his dance is magnificent. The first bit of homoerotism in the film is definitely from this scene, and the grandfather-figure says that the man will lunge at the young boy's throat with his manhood...? The young boy gulps, and the background is black/darkness.
There is a cut to Jun in the prison cell strangling the already-dead Kazuki.