We're just stones with faces. Rarely do I get the pleasure of seeing anything atmospheric. When you are chasing not the plot, but the feelings, emotions, sensations, color and sound, it is difficult to find something your.
After watching the film “Last Life in the Universe” by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (I am not sure whether to incline this name or not), I fell into all sorts of thoughts for a long time. I liked the actor, unique Tadanobu Asano, liked the very atmosphere, aura, call it what you want.
And I've been looking for something like this for about a year, something like this, but not quite abstract, which is what happens when you watch a movie and you don't understand why you got yourself into it at all - all the nonsense of a drug addict.
The film clearly duplicates "The Idiot" in the scenes with a suicide attempt, I wonder if Asano was invited there partly because of them, or is it a magical coincidence?
I don’t want to write anything about the plot, this is not a film in which the result is important (I caught myself somewhere in the middle on this idea, they say it doesn’t matter how it ends, it’s amazing!).
The so-called "idiot" - can one consider a person like her inferior when there are only ... idiots around (well, the word is stuck and that's all)?
The value of man is questioned, the vulgar interpretation of art.
At the very beginning, scenes after the bombing are shown - the boy cries at the burned corpses of fellow countrymen, maybe relatives, family, and very nearby polished elegant models are photographed against an unusual background. This is a very strong and interesting picture.
Such films are worth cultivating, worth showing.
Why? I don't know.
Maybe just to keep people thinking about values, life and death, peace and war.
I can add a ton of platitudes like “the film is deep, worth seeing, original”, etc.
But I'm 100% sure I didn't watch the movie for nothing.
“Although for the sake of aesthetic pleasure” look, connoisseurs of Asian cinema.
10 out of 10