Montag, 18. Februar 2019

FREE ON YOUTUBE Shion Sono - Love Exposure


Films, legal on the Internet cost 8.99 per month. Mubi offers "hand-picked" films, but only 365 per year. Netflix offers discarded Hollywood films, just like Amazon. From the selection: 47 Ronin, Fast & Furious 8, 22 Jump Street (...) Does anyone know them? Costs 8.99 a month. My cinegeek.de idea: Simply browse YouTube for streams in good quality and make them available for free. 0.00 per month.  The program is based on our DVD assortment of the Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo.  Unlike Netflix & co, we don't buy what we can get cheap, but what we like. FREE ON YOUTUBE - The son of a priest goes astray. He photographs panties. A fall from sin. Those who wanted to describe Love Exposure are challenged: All genres are served, countless popo-cultural references are used, numerous unbelievable storylines are connected. Running time: Almost four hours. And time flies by! Shion Sono works much less as a director. He is a poet. Down in the cellar of our film art bar Fitzcarraldo (now right at the entrance of the golden room) you can find his DVDs in the rental. Sono's work is kitschy and pseudo-intellectual, sometimes sublime and above all borderline! Love Exposure is Sono's masterpiece! Pathos and parody, somehow narcissistic, but above all EXTREMELY. The story? The widowed catholic priest Tetsu (Atsuro Watabe) starts an affair with Kaori (Makiko Watanabe), the nymphomaniac. Then Kaori leaves him. From now on Tetsu extorts confessions from his son Yu (Takahiro Nishijima), who is apprenticed to a Kung Fu master after he has run out of sins. It is Yu who places cameras with his gang under the mini skirts of the girls. "Chikans" - as such voyeurs are called in Japan. Performance by Sasori (yes, exactly the one from the 80s classics). Yu meets Kaori's stepdaughter Yoko (Hikari Matsushima) in Sasori disguise. Yu, who suffers from an Oedipal complex, believes to see his mother (or is it the Blessed Virgin Mary?). Yoko in turn suffers from an Electra complex. She hates men. A typical Sono figure is Aya Koike (Sakura Ando): She was castrated, abused by her father. Now she leads a cult called Zero, which also converts Tetsu and Kaori. Yu now has to fight for the final battle to redeem his loved ones... Suffering and transcendence, anarchy and nihilism. And the proverbial search for love! Sono regards his countrymen like herd animals. To destroy this mentality, that might be the real concern of Love Exposure.

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