Monster (2023)
(Kaibutsu)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Synopsis:
A mother takes her son's school to task for mistreatment, but the truth is more complicated than a simple story of bullying, whether by his teacher or not.
Review:
Kore-eda's delicate brush with homosexual love begins with a conflagration and ends with a flood and a resurrection. Avoiding tragedy, in spite of the plentiful potential for such throughout the screenplay, he instead shows us how adults, like children, behave out of fear, but that children can also show more courage. Unfolding the same events three times from the different key perspectives could have been wearying, but the film never ceases to hold us in its grip. The title itself is a lure, in truth nothing but a children's game: there are no monsters in Kore-eda's world view, as in Renoir's, only humans.
(Kaibutsu)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Synopsis:
A mother takes her son's school to task for mistreatment, but the truth is more complicated than a simple story of bullying, whether by his teacher or not.
Review:
Kore-eda's delicate brush with homosexual love begins with a conflagration and ends with a flood and a resurrection. Avoiding tragedy, in spite of the plentiful potential for such throughout the screenplay, he instead shows us how adults, like children, behave out of fear, but that children can also show more courage. Unfolding the same events three times from the different key perspectives could have been wearying, but the film never ceases to hold us in its grip. The title itself is a lure, in truth nothing but a children's game: there are no monsters in Kore-eda's world view, as in Renoir's, only humans.
(Kaibutsu)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Synopsis:
A mother takes her son's school to task for mistreatment, but the truth is more complicated than a simple story of bullying, whether by his teacher or not.
Review:
Kore-eda's delicate brush with homosexual love begins with a conflagration and ends with a flood and a resurrection. Avoiding tragedy, in spite of the plentiful potential for such throughout the screenplay, he instead shows us how adults, like children, behave out of fear, but that children can also show more courage. Unfolding the same events three times from the different key perspectives could have been wearying, but the film never ceases to hold us in its grip. The title itself is a lure, in truth nothing but a children's game: there are no monsters in Kore-eda's world view, as in Renoir's, only humans.