Kageroza

Like Zigeunerweisen, this was too incomprehensible and random, but not in that fun, Branded to Kill way. More like the boring, annoying way. Nonsensical edits, unmotivated emotional reactions, abstracted dialogue, deliberately confusing chronology. It's the kind of thing people make fun of when they mock art films. I was actually fighting to stay awake. Suzuki does manage some intriguing visuals, especially during the climax. But it's not enough to save the film.

Incomprehensible, but intriguing. Why do dreams have to end?

Much like Zigeunerweisen this falls into the nonsense camp of Seijun Suzuki films which is not my favorite. Here however there is at least a sense of uneasiness and eeriness that elevated the movie slightly from the previous one.

This is the kind of art movie in which narrative coherence take a back seat to symbolism and dreamlike logic. I can't say what happened or what everything means exactly, but I do know that as a cinematic experience I liked this.

best taisho, not fun to watch tho

O Teatro das Ilusões estreava há 40 anos no Japão. Gosto muito mais do período Taisho de maturidade do Suzuki do que seus famosos policiais dos anos 60, aqui ele antecede mais ou menos o que o David Lynch também se tornaria em sua maturidade, um riocorrente do inconsciente. Meu momento favorito é a citação da mulher interior e a mulher exterior, o que leva ao próprio conceito de anima no imaginário junguiano trazendo um porquê da narrativa ser calcada no onírico do subconsciente. Bl