Producer Ridley Scott assisted in bringing this film to the big screen where it didn't really see much interest or playtime outside of film festivals. It quickly made it's way to Netflix starting on the 15th of November.
Categorized as psychological thriller this film in Japan has an impressive cast (especially Alicia Vikander who performs a great deal of her lines in Japanese,) however, the movie, for the most part is just really slow an boring.
There will be some mild spoilers in this because I can't get the point across without them. I don't recommend watching this film because of the EXTREMELY slow pace, but if you wanna see it blind, don't read this
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Lucy Fly (Vikander) is a translator for flims working in Japan. She is introverted and truly ingrained into the culture of Japan but doesn't have much of an active social life. One day she meets a charming Japanese photographer named Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi) while walking home from work. They begin dating. He is a mysterious man, who is quite secretive about his work and photographs and Lucy becomes increasingly suspicious of him being a bit of a player when she discovers lot of photographs of other women.
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This feeling of jealousy and suspicion is amplified once Lucy introduces Teiji to another expat friend of hers named Lily and Lucy starts to feel as though they are flirting with one another.
Sound boring yet? Well it is. It takes about an hour to get to the point that I just did in 2 paragraphs. Literally nothing else happens and you start to feel a real sense of "get on with it already!"
There are some elements of crime and some dream sequences that happen but those moments of action are extremely brief and we are re-introduced to a very slow-moving film whose plot has been done many many times before.
The only thing that keeps you watching is Alicia Vikander's performance while speaking Japanese. I have no idea if she is doing it correctly, but I really dislike it when some Hollywood actor is in a film surrounded by people speaking an Asian language and we are meant to believe that they understand everything that is being said despite the fact that they are not participating in any spoken dialogue at all. Jared Leto's embarrassing performance in The Outsider springs to mind right away but there are many other examples.
However, you stop being enthralled with Vikander's dedication to the craft after about the 17th yawn.
from the MovieClips Trailers official channel
The trailer gives the impression that there is going to be some sort of supernatural something or other going on and there are times throughout the film that this is sort of hinted at as well... However, it never happens and isn't in the film at all.
I really can't find any redeeming qualities in this film other than a great performance by Vikander. The story never really gets moving and once you arrive at the conclusion it is neither surprising nor interesting. I feel duped having sat through this and don't think that you should make the same mistake.
My overall rating! 3 / 10
I seen this in the Netflix feeds, after ready this... I’m going to skip it for now! Thanks 😂
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i think you are making the correct decision. Netflix is loaded with garbage and a lot of it is pushed upon us. There must be some sort of internal financial reasoning behind why this is the case.
LOL!!! I love your candid honesty hehe! I find it so frustrating how they package the trailers in such a way that you think you are in for some absolutely epic visual experience and then you watch the movie and essentially discover that that they crammed the ONLY decent scenes into the 3 min short. hahaha... reminds me of that Sandra Bullock movie "Bird Box"... what a load of CRUD and I WISH I had "skipped it good"!
Thanks for the heads up haha!
yeah, it's a shame because it looked like a big-budget production with a lot of talented actors and a pretty compelling storyline only to have the story be nothing what you expect from the trailer. I think i was looking at my phone more than i was the TV screen when it was on.
lol... you know, I have noticed that (often), when there are many really great actors in one film... the film often tends to be a real anti climax lol!
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hey sweet... thanks for that. :)
I watched it last night
Yip!!! Super sloooowwwwwwww
The Hubs and I kept taking turns dozing off and waking the other ;p
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there were earthquakes in it... a couple of times. :)
You must spend a lot of time watching TV and movies. 😮
yeah, probably a bit too much time. But i gotta do something between drinking sessions.
Makes sense I guess. Watch TV, drink and write posts for steem huh?
I read a book like that one time where they hinted that there was going to be something really sinister or supernatural and then the whole book just ended up being nothing about that. It was called Abandon. It wasn't a horrible book, but I am not usually one to pick up supernatural books, so it was even more of a let down since I had finally gotten the courage to try to read one :) I am surprised this movie went the way you say it did with Ridley Scott involved.
I like it.