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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Japanuary '26 #28.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Rebel guy🤓
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
justice for setsuko and her rabbit “i’ve got no home. i’ve got no country. there’s no world for me.” “the line between life and film disappeared. i no longer know what i’ve become. and in my dreams, i was falling and falling. i don’t know why. but even if i don’t understand, i did fall. as i was falling i thought: “there’s nothing to hold on to.” that’s why i was falling.” cinema.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
I'm trying to find a way to justify a rape scene in this film, but even at the beginning of this thought, this sentence, I'm in complete awe of the big ol' why. Knowing that male viewers have given this such high praise in the review section for this film, says a lot about it. I think I would've liked this more if I was actually one of those male viewers: teenaged, angsty, and full of nothingness. I will say that the beginning and end of this film were the most ground-breaking moments of the film. Not the colors changing, not the screeching sounds of the riotous soundtrack (although, listening to it outside of the film, it's quite a treat), and the way women are depicted in the film, goes to show that men are still a menace to society and I don't care about your bouts of man-child anxieties. Grow the fuck up. The beginning and end properly deconstruct the absolute nothingness of the obnoxiously long running time of the film, and done so with so much love, grace, and earnestness that proves that film, in the end, is a silly and long way of showing how great the world is in the grand collaborative effort that shapes us the way we are now, and I applaud him for that. But senseless rape? That goes on for like 4 minutes? Yikes.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
I could not write a coherent review of this movie even at gunpoint because personally I feel like it goes against the movie, it's message, it's themes etc. . I spent the last 10 minutes of the movie sobbing and had an ugly cry at the end. The messages in it are so complex I would have to break down every scene from different perspectives and even then I feel like a million of words would not do justice to the raw emotions this movie somehow managed to make me feel throughout the whole 2.5 hours of viewing it. There's many different ways to approach watching this movie, from historical context, emotional to even analyzing it's cinematography and the director managed to nail every single one. I'm not kidding when I say that I believe Shūji Terayama is a genius for this one. "Don't grant freedom to the enemies of freedom"
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
indescribable, watch it, pay attention and use your brain. think about the politics and psychology, if you are too privileged to get it or you lack the empathy you're probably a part of the problem a movie like this couldn't exist in the current landscape but it should, we need more movies like this
