Love exposure Director: Shion Sono A false dichotomy containing however a large helping of truth is that with cinema, when you go down either the art-house or mainstream routes, you are opting for either the morbid or the stupid (occasionally both). If thats so, then Love Exposure is an example of the troisieme voie that modern exuberant Japanese cinema can be. This film is literally bursting with life and fully sustains the four hour running time. I felt like asking the winds why all cinema wasnt like this when I came out. Despite numerous sashays forward and back in time and a pretty complex plot, what weve got here is basically a love story between star-crossd lovers, a young man Yu, and a young woman Yoko. The comedy aspect comes with the obstacles that Yu is continuously having to overcome to achieve love with Yoko, a girl who hates all men, except for Kurt Cobain (incidentally Cobain crossdressed). Spunky Yu is going to be dragged through bushes, over hot coals, through friendships, in and out of a cult and drug before he even gets close to Yoko. The soundtrack is pretty crazy, and disarmingly obvious, main uses are made of Ravels Bolero and the Allegretto from Beethovens Symphony #7 (if you dont recognise the name you probably will recognise the sound). Theres also some J-rock chucked in for added good measure, and that was not bad to be fair (I dont generally care for modern vocal music - chock full of loose allusions). The vast majority of films wouldnt get away with the classical choices made here, however the film has the level of pathos and interest to match the music. Theres quite a lot of points scored along the way about different modes of living. Tosatsu is shown as being as revelatory as the Christian experience. Tosatsu by the way, if you can believe it, is the Japanese martial art of taking up-skirt photos of unwary young women. The movie dwells a lot on the fetishism involved with Christianity as much as it does up-skirt fetishism. We quite often see ornate gold and mother of pearl rosaries being held by female characters, and the ritual of confession becomes incredibly fetishised, literally causing Yu to commit far more sin than he would otherwise have done. Review from: imdb/title/tt1128075/reviews?start=0
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:33:20 +0000
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