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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 20, 2024 0:07:31 GMT
Some people are seeing this as a joyful endorsement of the style of living of its protagonist, who is clearly a broken man withdrawn from society into a monastic routine that would drive most people insane. If you give it time to unfold, the little details that flesh him out are heartbreaking. It's a really masterful, disciplined piece of filmmaking that puts you directly into the mind of a truly abnormal person, making you see things with his eyes even as you wonder if someone shouldn't pull him out of the canyon-sized rut he's expertly worn himself into.
Pretty sure you'll enjoy the cassette fetishism, Sprague.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2024 0:33:52 GMT
Cassettes? Goddamnit you already had me sold at these two junctures: I dont remember sanctioning my life biography.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2024 0:39:59 GMT
Had a quick read about this.
A bloke peacefully cleaning Tokyo public bogs?
Oddly enough my boss shrink at the funny farm puts a MASSIVE emphasis on mindfulness (he keeps asking me to define it in English and it constantly stumps me, I still can't give him an accurate answer) that manifests itself as recommending radio rentals take a great deal of time cleaning their shitters. They take fucking HOURS doing it on the weekends. Therapeutic, focusing on what you control, in the moment, all that malarkie.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 20, 2024 1:41:47 GMT
Actually very curious to see your perspective on it. People are jizzing all over it as a "positive, life-affirming" film, but it's deeply sad.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2024 3:40:19 GMT
scabbed a dodgy stream will defo give this a burl later tonite CCing nikkeisindex into the conversation, guessing he would get "homesick" as shit about Tokyo if he watched this. I havent been there for a record scabbing trip since 2019 and my glasses are rose tinted to shit after such a long time
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2024 11:29:09 GMT
People are jizzing all over it as a "positive, life-affirming" film, but it's deeply sad. Dude is pretty much every middle-aged single bloke in Tokyo. Silent, OCD, aspergers, no community. There's the reasons they get fanatical about their hobbies. It is an insanely lonely city. Film was totally mundane and boring yet still completely spellbinding. FFS it was like a documentary to me. Totally Tokyo. Right down to the miserable sameness of the architecture and the 3rd-world shithole balsa wood apartment. Although the apato looked kind of huge. 8 tatami and 6 tatami rooms. Wayyy the fuck bigger than my MiniMe's first insult of a closet Never seen public dunnies as swanky and art deco as those though Made in 2023? Realistically, sadly, the main dude would have had his mask on for the whole movie. Especially considering his line of work. The first ever Japanese thing I've seen without any of the histrionic screaming that is COMPLETELY fake and anathematic to the J's in real life. Most of them go their whole lives without raising their voices yet J-dramas/films have them all wailing like banshees every 5 fucking minutes LOL@ the screenplay. The entire films dialogue could have fit on a couple of sheets of A4 paper Been to that record shop. The store guy is a fucking arsehole (not the actor). Shit stock, just total dross, in utterly shit condition too. Fuck knows how he keeps it going in prime Shimokitazawa real estate That scene of main dude lying on the tatami, cushion under his head, with the tape playing.... yeah. That's basically most of my life. Hours a day. FFS if I hadnt got married I think I would be this guy. Right down to his line of work and never talking to any pricks.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 20, 2024 13:40:49 GMT
I did think of you frequently as I watched it. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
How extreme are the differences in cities' characters over there? I get the impression that Osaka is brash, Kyoto is posh, Tokyo is too cool for school, and I haven't heard much about your lovely cool island.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2024 21:32:15 GMT
How extreme are the differences in cities' characters over there? I get the impression that Osaka is brash, Kyoto is posh, Tokyo is too cool for school, and I haven't heard much about your lovely cool island. Never been beyond Tokyo and Hokkaido. Those stereotypes are the same ones I have. I think you meet a different sort of foreigner in Hokkaido. Less of the anime dweebs and charisma men losers in their homeland here to finally get laid, more the frontier types. As for locals, I have no idea
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 21, 2024 0:07:04 GMT
It's so funny how you're in this absolutely amazing place and don't explore it. I've never met anyone who went to Japan and wasn't blown away.
I also felt a strong twinge of "there but for the grace of God go I" when watching Hirayama's daily routine. My girlfriend was honestly losing her mind reading all the reviews that saw the film as an endorsement of simple living rather than a slowly revealed tragedy.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 21, 2024 0:57:18 GMT
It's so funny how you're in this absolutely amazing place and don't explore it. I have explored many, many, many, many thrilling record shops. The rest of it I dont give a single shit about. Fuck a building. Fuck shrines. Fuck a church. Fuck nature. Fuck a tree. Fuck your stupid noodles restaurant.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 21, 2024 3:51:16 GMT
It's so funny how you're in this absolutely amazing place and don't explore it. I have explored many, many, many, many thrilling record shops. The rest of it I dont give a single shit about. Fuck a building. Fuck shrines. Fuck a church. Fuck nature. Fuck a tree. Fuck your stupid noodles restaurant. Hahaha, this is quite heroic in its own funny way.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 27, 2024 22:30:00 GMT
You know who the happiest people in Japan are? The garbo's. The garbage collectors. Yes, the poor broke youing blokes who run around behind the slowly moving rubbish compacting trucks as they make their neighbourhood rounds. Punishing heat, driving rain, fuckign snow, all that shit. They always grin at me like they know a secret and they're letting me in on it. They know exactly where they stand in society. Right at the fuckign bottom. But they also know exactly what their job is. They're with their peers and probably have their own pride markers. Quickest behind the truck, fittest etc. I dunno. And fit? You fat fucks driving your wankpanzers to the gym so you can walk on a treadmill while staring at your phone should try this job. A few All Blacks used to do it on the sly in the offseason. Perfect rugby training. Run. Pick up heavy shit. Chuck it around. Run some more.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Apr 18, 2024 19:47:40 GMT
awesome. i will make it a point to pirate and watch this.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Apr 19, 2024 15:42:47 GMT
you were right sprague, this kicked off a huge pining for tokyo. those shitty metal sinks and the sound the water makes when it splashes in them.
i have never lived a more tidy or organized life than i did in a 6 tatami apartment in tokyo. there is no room for error. if i got a new sweater, something the size of a sweater had to go. dusted maniacally. it's such a finite space you end up making the most of it and it's easy to keep it under control. now i live in an american house which is basically stuffed with a bunch of useless bullshit.
i love a good routine and would do the same thing endlessly. some of my in laws are frustrated that all i want to do, every vacation, is go to tokyo. right. i know europe exists. i don't care. 2 weeks a year is the bare minimum i can stand being in tokyo, and we're not making that, so no, i don't want to go other places.
do not miss that green watery soap in public bathrooms.
They must have really blown out the budget on the song selections. I would love to know what it costs to put for example "Brown Eyed Girl" in a Japanese movie.
Also seems like a very Japanese movie in terms of moving at a glacial pace with minimal dialogue and waiting 1hr 20 mins to introduce another main character. And almost taking pride in presenting Japanese culture as either uncommunicative or wildly subtle.
I swear I was in that record shop too!
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Post by fuckface on Apr 29, 2024 19:15:53 GMT
It's so funny how you're in this absolutely amazing place and don't explore it. I have explored many, many, many, many thrilling record shops. The rest of it I dont give a single shit about. Fuck a building. Fuck shrines. Fuck a church. Fuck nature. Fuck a tree. Fuck your stupid noodles restaurant. this old kiwi bloke has been living in hokkaido for 58 yrs or something and loves everthing. its almost as if he's like, the anti dawley or something.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 29, 2024 22:29:25 GMT
Preaching to his audience there. Yeah we all have a seaside bach and a boat. Dude even looks totally Japanese. TLDR: fuck him.
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