
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.... (Full plot summary below)
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An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
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| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickI cared less and less with every passing minute. |
| User ReviewJason CThis is possibly Miike's most self-consciously artful film yet. As a result it feels cold, but it's so visually stunning and inventively staged that it hardly matters. |
| User ReviewLokka CA difficult movie to comprehend, but it is beautifully executed. Ryuhei, Masanobu, and Shunsuke are amazing. |
| User ReviewJohnny BPossibly Takashi Miike's most visually impressive film. And with Miike, that really is saying something. |
| User ReviewChris OThis is not a structured narative so most western viewers are going to have a hard time appreciating this piece. It is, first and foremost, a moving work of art with a semi-linear flow. It's not "all over the map" but it does repeat certain elements to re-focus our attention. Neither the original title nor the English title have any direct relationship to the story, although I rather prefer 4600 Million Years of Love. A love that has endured over ages and re-occurs in a new milieu. If you let the movie drift through your conscious without trying to capture the narrative, you're more likely to appreciate the experience. The butterfly may be the mostly easily captured element of the story. You may of course simply follow the plot line, but that's mostly besides the point and can lead to a degree of frustration. If I were to compare this to another film it would most likelly be '[size=2]La rivière du hibou' aka "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" by Robert Enrico. [/size] |
| User ReviewMélissa Kabsolutely stunning. the beauty/crudeness of the actors and the sets easily surpass any other film i've seen. the story is simple, which probably made all the subtleties in the film more comprehensible. melancholy. beauty. |
| User ReviewChampagne JBeautiful! Would you rather go to Heaven or to Outer Space? |
| User ReviewEvan Hprison mystery Miike style. gotta love it. |
| User ReviewPaul ZThis voyeuristically expressionistic film is set in an unknown future in which Ryuhei Matsuda plays a soft, sad gay bartender imprisoned for his strange and brutal killing of a customer who attacked him, and Masanobu Ando is a Yakuza thug packed to the top with pent-up anger and violence that makes him tight as a drum till he sporadically bursts. The two arrive in a juvenile detention center on the same day and, with nothing in common, they become tangled by yearning, shared visualizations of flight to an imagined world, and a murder of another boy inside the stockade that results in one dead and the other pleading guilty to the carnage. It's a murder mystery of young incarcerated men in lust, seen through surreal composition on sets of darkness and illumination and the simplest trace of detail. Two detectives try to expose the indictment. "Why did this trigger it?" One of them questions as to why the inmate would lead this course of self-ruin and devastation, seeing a rainbow. "Only he himself knows." In the humankind that judges people under the duplicitous laws prearranged as a result of a perversely archaic edition of religious principles, Miike bares violence in its most honest form, as an instinctive undertaking. It cannot be made clear further than the surface of palpable means of interaction. It's too mysterious and puzzling for anyone beyond of the person perpetrating the action to entirely grasp. Sexual friction and short-tempered violence propel the story to its mind-blowing outcome. Takashi Miike puts his heart and soul into his fascinating visual actualization of the morally ambiguous story, which is heavily reminiscent of Jean Genet novels like Our Lady of the Flowers. It is avant-garde theater translated onto film, voice-over and screened words as the literal point of view of the investigators. The film is punctuated by wonderful, infectious closing music, and you realize you have just experienced film-making in a unique manner, a conspicuous trance consisting of definite colors alive in the bounds of a vast universe of an unlit void. Thick with striking images like pyramids, a classic sci-fi rocket ship, and an opening dance sequence coming unexpectedly. That's just the tip of the iceberg to all of the creative dexterity Miike affords the viewer. One may come from this film thinking that it wasn't about the story. That's an understandable way to put it, put it is not quite correct. Really, in order to be a narrative at all, it can only be about the story, but Miike does not betray the sheer weight of the story's content and ideas. Can there have been a simpler depiction of it? The film, essentially, is about existence. It is a concept spanning 4.6 billion years! Miike, who normally makes cynical if not outright self-deprecating microcosmic yakuza and horror movies, has aggregating all of those impressions into a claustrophobic, life-refracting prism of all the world's details and creates a blemish on the face of the world of cinema that audaciously, patiently, calculatedly tackles humankind and the self-worth behind which it hides, self-worth largely created by the belief in God, which this film could be read as implicating doesn't exist. The movie's likely metaphors for evolution and faith have very telling differences in outcome, as the movie's symbolic image of evolution augments and that of religious conviction remains the way it has since the beginning. The movie is only an agent for the viewer to perceive on their terms, however confined to the film's implications. Miike is correct: This is his masterpiece. |
| User ReviewSean VAnother cool Miike movie. Has all the stuff I like about his movies in it. And Masanobu Ando is a pretty baller actor. |