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Ambitious but sloppy.
It feels like it wanted to be a mini series but they had to cut it down to a movie.... and accidentally hired a blind monkey to choose which scenes to keep. I'm livid that I spent 2 hours watching it.I think there were some interesting ideas behind the writing, but they really did not make their way onto the screen in an emotionally affecting way. It felt like everything was distraction, including the key plot points.
Alternatively it was not written and all of it was improv - this would explain A LOT.
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Interesting premise and ideas! Heavy on melodrama though
I don’t think the primary theme is a new one to cover/explore; I do think maybe some of the way it was explored was novel. I really like the ambiguity that the end leaves as to the more complicated main character's (hint: his name ends in "woo") motivations and intentions. I think this could have been a great mini series if 1) it gave us more background on both characters, 2) it toned down the melodrama or at least gave it the meat and development to feel plausible, and 3) it gave the wife more room to be a person (I think the actress was wasted a bit in this movie).I hate that the acting in the acting (story is about a play within the movie itself) relies so much on screaming - if screaming is the only way your character knows how to express intensity, it's a boring, badly written character.
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Meh writing
The manga makes both of the main characters make more sense with fewer words/scenes, surprisingly.One thing that really bothers me is how one of the main characters was rewritten to be more so much more shallow-ly characterized than he was in the manga. Please keep in mind that the manga is maybe 60 pages total - how do you manage to reduce a character's depth when you turn 60pp of mostly pictures to 2h of content?? He went from a realistic, if eccentric, person to a weird caricature of "innocent and imaginative". Disappointing.
The other main got a sort of similar flattening-out, but not to such a jarring degree.
Beyond that it was fine. Acting in the more bastardized character was kinda wobbly, but he wasn't given great material.
I can't tell you more without spoiling things, so I'll leave it up to you to hunt a full plot outline elsewhere (Wikipedia or forums are a great source of spoilers)! Either way, I definitely recommend finding the manga and reading that instead.
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