Pistol Opera - Stylishly delerious
Pistol Opera - I guess you could call Seijun Suzuki's style collage moviemaking .. stitching together situations and scenes without anything more than an overt nod to narrative cohesion.
The lushness of the colors and some of the scene layouts were most times eyeshockingly good. And while this made for a visually mesmerizing experience, it was thematically totally underwhelming. It made for an interesting viewing conflict though!
Locations especially the mountain of snow in the last scene, the steps to the temple, the interiors of the house ... eye candy indeed, especially the forest where she shoots it out with the blond wigged killer. But .. but the exchanges between #0 and her, the monologue after the climb up the steps to the temple, the friend describing her dream, the exchanges between the duelers in the forest ... strictly drone talk all the way through.
But then there's also the plain wierd makes no sense parts ... like where the girl asks Miyaka to take her head, and then scenes later her sawed off head hanging off the gun of the agent as they do their shoot out, followed by both of them freeze framing their positions on the rotating tableaux ... quite a few times I did end up shaking my head, and like I said if the scenes hadn't been so drop dead gorgeous and if the music wasn't so emotionally resonant I'd have given up and gone to sleep that much earlier ...
Music, the tunebites used to spotlight certain scenes I mean was superbly apt and brilliantly timed. The fact that the score consisted of variations on the same tune made for an added layer of pleasure. But the fact that the actors in the scenes themselves were schizophrenically pretentious bored me to death simultaneously ... y'all beginning to see the point I made earlier about an interesting conflict?
The lushness of the colors and some of the scene layouts were most times eyeshockingly good. And while this made for a visually mesmerizing experience, it was thematically totally underwhelming. It made for an interesting viewing conflict though!
Locations especially the mountain of snow in the last scene, the steps to the temple, the interiors of the house ... eye candy indeed, especially the forest where she shoots it out with the blond wigged killer. But .. but the exchanges between #0 and her, the monologue after the climb up the steps to the temple, the friend describing her dream, the exchanges between the duelers in the forest ... strictly drone talk all the way through.
But then there's also the plain wierd makes no sense parts ... like where the girl asks Miyaka to take her head, and then scenes later her sawed off head hanging off the gun of the agent as they do their shoot out, followed by both of them freeze framing their positions on the rotating tableaux ... quite a few times I did end up shaking my head, and like I said if the scenes hadn't been so drop dead gorgeous and if the music wasn't so emotionally resonant I'd have given up and gone to sleep that much earlier ...
Music, the tunebites used to spotlight certain scenes I mean was superbly apt and brilliantly timed. The fact that the score consisted of variations on the same tune made for an added layer of pleasure. But the fact that the actors in the scenes themselves were schizophrenically pretentious bored me to death simultaneously ... y'all beginning to see the point I made earlier about an interesting conflict?
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