This is made for a tiny, hugely self-inDULLgent demographic. You really have to love acting. You really have to love Chekov. You really have to love being sad. You really have to love being so sad that you really cannot show any emotion, comatose is it?
The decision to watch this balanced my overall love for Japanese films with my having hated the only Haruki Murakami novel that I ever tried to read. When I say I hated it, well, that was even though I think I read only 50 or 60 pages, which, I don't know may have been only the 1st 10%.
To honor a guy who writes books that are much too long, the film-maker took a 24 page short-story and made it into a film that is 100% too long. I made it to 2 hrs and just did not care anymore.
The decision to watch this balanced my overall love for Japanese films with my having hated the only Haruki Murakami novel that I ever tried to read. When I say I hated it, well, that was even though I think I read only 50 or 60 pages, which, I don't know may have been only the 1st 10%.
To honor a guy who writes books that are much too long, the film-maker took a 24 page short-story and made it into a film that is 100% too long. I made it to 2 hrs and just did not care anymore.