Harakara (The Village) by Yoji Yamada – A Fake Review
STRIPPED FROM NOTES
A time
Hard work rewarded
A strange portrait of _——
Perfunctory with no real weight
“likable”
Not a film
The memory of a field
If you want art it’s going to cost ya
Strangely nothing anyone says
naive
“The mountain is simple”
“The mountain is silent”
“Oh mountain in the sunset”
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Harakara (The Village) by Yôji Yamada 1976
Youth Killer by Kazuhiko Hasegawa – Seishun no satsujin sha – A Fake Review
Foreword: I began these notes before realizing this film is mildly fucking disgusting

Immediate reminder of Scene at the Sea

That umbrella

“Don’t get mad, there are knives around”

“This is strictly a family matter”

“The law”

“The law is worthless!”

A mother’s son


Like mother like son

“I don’t want to fix flat tires at 45 years old”

“This is a coffin”

“A polyethylene coffin”

Oh god

“You shouted ‘This is the sea!’”

o.k.

Borders on absurd / comedic

Subject matter weights it

oppressive the idea of ‘humor’ seems hysterical

out of it’s mind

The Situation determines the dialogue – understanding and exploiting it

places you in a hypothetic nightmare, explores all the wrong choices

..through the struggle, a child understands the weight of —– True capital punishment* more later

“I won’t have to work anymore”

“No more hard work”

“I’m glad”

takes this shit Serious

Gosh this dumb brat was handed everything

Hipster Revenge Film —

Revenge Without A Cause

I want to be sick

Could do without the flshbcks – not important

Thinking abt why Satoshi Kon [Tokyo Godfathers] chose ‘The Man Who Stole The Sun’ as top 100 in his farewell letter ..

Could it be the resolved fatalistic attitude?

* — ‘youth’ in a self-determined haze accomplishes all tasks with Disgusting Fury — safe. this film is a mirror of consequence which will come with ‘age’. a gross moral Tale!


































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