About him & her (2023): A movie review…
Think about all the little elements of fate that lead to us crossing each-other lifepaths, some of them leaving everlasting marks, others just ending up as ghostly shadows of destiny. The movie, “About him&her”, explores this theme, as two phone line cross accidentally, and the people in both sides of them end up forming a special connection. Hiding from Tokyo’s summer heat and humidity, I put the movie on, not really intending to watch it closely, but rather as a distraction as I was sorting things out a little bit, but it grasped my attention, not to let me go, till the last screen, when I felt tears rolling down my cheeks. SPOILER ALERT. The movie is set in 1989 and the opening screen shows a black screen and visualized telephone lines getting...
Read MoreThe last love letter…
In 2020, the Japanese movie director, Shuji Iwate made a return with a beautiful movie, titled Last Letter. The story lines are simple, yet they give rise to a network of ideas and feelings, that make you want to look back, to view how your own life plot has converged towards the present. In a way, the movie itself is a look back into a different work of art by the same director, Love Letter (1995), that came to the theaters more than a quarter of a century ago. This is a review of both these movies, Love Letter (1995) and Last Letter (2020). Grab your coffee and follow me. Love Letter (1995) marks the filmmaking career, paving the way for later masterpieces, such as “Swallowtail Butterfly” (1996) and “All About Lily Chou-Chou” (2001). It is set up in two distant...
Read MoreMy Tomorrow, Your Yesterday
“We are not just passing by each-other” This beautiful movie tells a marvelous tale of human relationships, bringing together themes of love, time, memory, and unavoidable separation. All this is set in very interesting spacetime dynamics, making it a unique romantic sci-fi story, in what initially seems like a normal world, but then ends up with significant twists. Before you go and watch the movie, I have to warn you. I had the pleasure to watch the movie with my lovely girlfriend during a nice, peaceful August Saturday night, that marked the ending of what I called “her birthday week”. She ended up crying throughout it and went through a box of tissues. She’s a beautiful soul, with a pure heart. I guess we have to watch a couple of fun/action...
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