Yesterday, Ryan came back with a video Casshern (Japan, 2004) and we watched it together. I heard that this film received some recognition for its screen images, which was true (we used a projector); I quite enjoyed it.
But... I thought the film was a bit too abstract – and this was not because it was fantasy. ‘Conflict’ ‘peace’ ‘hatred’ ‘forgiveness’ – in the film, they are just ‘words’ or ‘ideas.’ It seems to me that these ideas are put onto the fancy image – superficial. To me, ‘love’ or ‘peace’ is something closer to us, stable and fixed. This is probably why this film – these nicely ‘mixed’ images – failed to embody these ideas. Or maybe it is the effort to turn it into a story that I don’t like...? At this point, I realized that Ryan was asleep; maybe for the director, the images were only what mattered.
Well, check it out when you have time.
Image: Nothing to do with the content - a drawing I made yesterday.