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Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu (1969)
7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
One of the Best Films of the Sixties, 14 septembre 2007
Author: harrizonn de GSO, USA
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Yoshida's Eros Plus Massacre is an AMAZING example of what narrative cinema can do with time and space, establishing characters that exist in a world of their own and yet feel very real (and are in fact based on some real people.) Ito Noe and Osugi Sakae were lovers and friends who fanned the flames of anarchist and leftist controversy during one the Taisho era (Japan's Weimar or Roaring 20s.) Noe was a writer who became Osugi Sakae's, an anarchist revolutionary and writer, lover. They were murdered by the state police after the Kano earthquake of 1923 (which was, in some ways and places, blamed on anarchist, immigrants, and other illogical things.)
Yoshida places us in the present day through rebellious college students, one an extremely sexual female who plays games with police and film directors the entire movie, the other a nearly impotent young man who is obsessed with current events and fatalism. They replay the Taisho events in their imaginations, which we are privy to, until the imaginations begin to take place within their own reality. Soon, the two are intertwined, and we're asked as viewers to deal with some improbable and unforgettable situations that question our role as a passive audience. The story and characters of both time periods are engrossing, and combined with Yoshida's radical compositions and a combination of subdued "historical" music and late 60s trippy rock, you're thrown into a delightfully open ended plot which you'll have a hard time shaking.
Yoshida's debt to Alain Resnais is on full display here. The film is a near sister to Last Year at Marienbad and Muriel. Antonioni's desolation films also come to mind, particularly The Eclipse. Yoshida's place in the Nuberu Bago (the Japanese New Wave) was cemented when David Desser named his book about the movement after this film, and its worth the advertisement. This is available in Japan without subs, and you can probably find it somewhere in the trading world with English subtitles, but it needs a proper DVD release (along with EVERY OTHER YOSHIDA film.) Highly highly recommended to any film fan with an open mind.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Yoshishige Yoshida's Masterpiece! A formal guide-line to understand the Japanese New Wave., 21 avril 2008
Author: kagetsuhisoka de Portugal
This one, plus Oshima's Koshikei (Death by Hanging, 1968), Matsumoto's Bara no Soretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969), Shinoda's Shinjû: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide, 1969) and Terayama's Den'en ni shisu (Pastoral : to Die in the Country, 1974), are maybe the great accomplishments of the Japanese New Wave. Here, Yoshida starts the last political trilogy about Japanese Past and Present (Eros plus Massacre, Heroic Purgatory and Coup D'etat) using a distinctive aesthetics proving that his Cinema contains some sort of a Metamorfosical ethic.
In fact, the movie builds an omnipresent dialectic between spectator and characters. History and Symbolic Representation. According to Pascal BONITZER, the "plus" of the tittle is a metonymy for the movie relation and revelation: "You must play too, because you can't dominate it. You must attach, dis-attach, and transform one and another: «Eros» and «Massacre». The spectator is the local of application. The spectator is the plus (+)."
Symbolic and different, 14 avril 2008
Author: saturn_gazelle de Macedonia
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The film narrates two parallel stories:one about two deceased lovers(Noe and Osugi) and the other about a super erotic twenty years old female student who meets a gay student and a policeman who accuses her of prostitution.This woman is interested in characters of Noe and Osugi,representatives of feminist and anarchist movements of the early twentieth century Japan,and tries to find out the secret of their life.
Osugi is an anarchist who believes in "free love" and keeps a wife and two lovers by the same time.He believes that if the persons are financially independent,live separately and respect the liberty of others(including free sexual relationships),they can live in peace while polygamous,but finally he quites the others for Noe,the one who revives the revolutionist in him.
The erotic student and her friend are always playing games,suspending in a desperate emptiness of the time and space.The man has an obsession of burning and the woman wants him to burn her,and in a symbolic scene,they burn together in a fire which the woman has made by her stockings.
The film uses a lot of symbolical and expressionistic scenes and lighting to show the meaning of emptiness and sexuality.It is a combination of artistic scenes rather than a classic film with a linear story.we can see the trace of theater and photography in many scenes.
It is a different film which remains in mind.
3 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
still fresh after 33 years, 14 octobre 2003
Author: mingus_x de Vienna
The opening sequence is framed an cut in such a modern way that you would think that you are in a movie of the present. It totally graps your attention and doesn't let go till the end.
If you have any chance to see this movie in the original 202min. cut - use it !!
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