Change Your Image
teichou-419-234259
Reviews
Sayonara itsuka (2010)
Excellent Movie
Just watched this movie today on Netflix. I was pleasantly surprised.
I agree with the first review in that the movie is much less focused on the details and more on the relationships between the characters. It is one of those movies where you just need to sit down for the ride, and just watch what happens. Its sort of like watching a horror movie or thriller, and wondering why the people do things to get themselves killed or murdered. You don't ask questions, you just watch the movie for what it is.
With regards to the second review, I don't understand why the viewer was disappointed when they watched a total of 20 minutes of the movie. To call this movie garbage is completely unacceptable. Just like with books, if you skip pages in between events you're going to see everything out of context. The same is very true for Sayonara Itsuka. You won't get any of the symbolic references they make in this movie if you don't watch it through. The best part is that almost all of them seem innocuous and almost trivial when they are first introduced. Those symbols are then re-introduced imbued with deep meaning at integral points during the movie's progression. I could go on with specifics, and I will agree that I definitely thought Yutaka Higashigaito was a sleaze for cheating on his fiancée. But at the end, I could relate to him, and even pondered if I wanted to continue my life as an office drone climbing the corporate ladder.
Sayonara Itsuka when watched from beginning to end with an open mind is a cleverly and beautifully crafted and movie.