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True Confessions (1981)
The Tension between the Light and the Darkness
Besides the remarkable performace of the two legendary Roberts (deNiro and Duvall) and an expose type of plots between the Church and the corrupt Catholics in the society, this movie attempts to juxtapose the characters of the two brothers. Bought up in a very pious family, one became a priest and the other a cop, even though both were altar boys. On the face of it, these two jobs represent justice, love and good. The reality turned out to be much complicated and authentic than an over-simplified duality of darkness and light, the main them of the Gospel of John. A movie in 1981, I guess people have not seen all the scandals of the Catholic Church in the subsequent decades, yet the story has the ending of perfect versoin of the Prodigal Sons.
Gûzen to sôzô (2021)
Post Modern Perspective On Romantic Love
Besides the beautiful background music and smooth presentation, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's three short stories are able to capture the spirit of postmodern perpectives of love. In the first story, he asks viewers to ponder whether the magic feelings are jealosy in disguse, or truly an Eureka moment when two minds completely united to form this enchanted moment. The second story - Door Wide Open - was erotism of the third kind - not physical, not mental but almost spiritual. The third story, to me, gives us both the playful imagination as well as an accidental encounter between two women who had graduated from high school twenty years ago. By role playing, they helped each other to heal the missing holes in their hearts.