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Samedi, août 28th, 2010
A masterfully silly, compassionate, composed and exciting film by a Japanese director whose work has primarily been in documentaries. The premise is uncommon but thought-provoking: after death, you have to settle one memory to steal with you into eternity; everything else will be forgotten. In a shining series of cuts the staff at a run-down, out-of-the-way establishment clarify this to the weekly intake of their “clients”–people who have unbiased died. They have three days to decide; then the staff, with summer-camp-like enthusiasm, stages miniature films that recreate the memories. On the last day of the week the films are shown, and the clients vanish, one by one, as they relive the memories that are projected.
Kore-Eda worked with actors and scripts, actors telling the camera their bear memories, and non-professionals; the marvellous cast mixes all three and it’s impossible to articulate which is which. A young girl wants to relive Splash Mountain, only to reconsider after a worker gently tells her that thirty others had made the same choice that year. A boastful roue explains that the memory of course has to be of sex–and then chooses something quite different. An archaic woman remembers dancing for her older brother’s friends in a red dress, and shyly coaches the shrimp girl who will play her in the memory film. And a seventy-year-old salaryman can obtain nothing worth remembering, so videotapes of his life are requisitioned–touching off what status there is.
There are no flashbacks and microscopic overt drama, but as the clients ogle support at their lives the staff are drawn in, and the viewers, too, can’t attend but wonder what memory would be worth living with for ever. What glows from the placid surface of this amazing film is the wonder and mystery of everyday things, the tenuous but rich beauty of merely living. “After Life”– the Japanese title is “Fabulous Life”–is only ostensibly about death; no film of unusual years has been more life affirming.
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It is extremely rare for me to grace a film release with the coveted ”’Five Star”’ for a review gather, but let me spot for the describe that dispite this scoring system’s limitation to only ”’five”’ stars, I give Koreeda Hirokazu’s ”’After Life”’ (Japanese title: ”’Extraordinary Life”’) ”’Nine Stars!”’ It is a film that should be seen and taken to heart, despite whatever theological or eschatological beliefs the viewer may have. (This was not designed as or intended to be a religious film … if it causes the viewer to think more deeply upon their particular religious ideology or to meditate on spiritual matters that’s not necessarily a awful thing, but film clearly addresses something else entirely.)
Inspired by experiences he witnessed in his bear family life, Koreeda-san presents the viewer with an entertaining premise: After death, you are taken to a processing center (or ”’Limbo,”’ if you will) … While there you are given a deadline of only three days to settle unbiased one memory that you can recall with you into eternity — These memories are then reproduced on film and shown on cloak inside a special movie theatre that also serves as the launching pad to catch you to your ”’final destination”’ as you ”’relive”’ (conception) your most cherished memory.
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The ”’Limbo”’ spot, as portrayed in this film, is unnervingly esoteric and confusing, and yet it offers an amazingly refreshing demolish from the stereotypically pristine, anticeptic, sterile, ”’impersonal”’ visual representations of post-life scenarios we’ve all been force-fed throughout history (powerful like the skinny effeminate visual representations of Jesus) and presents us with a setting that actually exudes a feeling of warmth, comfort, compassion, and familiarity, despite the obviously near-ramshackled and uninspiring region of this particular transfer point.
Some viewers may be a tiny put-off by the slowness of the film’s lunge, but this is extremely well-known for the principal character development that takes station. Granted, the film could have done better by providing us with fewer ”’initiates”’ going through this particular processing phase, so as to allow for even deeper character development; at the same time, however, processing such a huge group of people at one time, as presented in the movie, as well as the number of ”’interviewers,”’ provides us with a smorgasbord of personalities and motivations which highlights the sizable differences and uniquenesses of the characters on cloak and gives us added motivation to consider on our enjoy differences and uniquenesses, as well as how we act and interact with one other. (The final scene with Arata-san’s character, ”’Mochizuki,”’ is especially touching.)
No, the film does not acknowledge all of the questions it poses, nor does it really try to, nor do I consider it should — it is, for all intents and purposes, an examination into the human soul, if you will, and merely intends to have its viewers judge on the more necessary questions raised and to motivate us into taking a long, deep, hard survey at our very short lives and contemplate on our most dear and cherished moments, and to not only ask ourselves ”’which one”’ memory would we resolve to remove with us and why, but to also ask ourselves if it could even be possible for us to capture fair one.
(For a deeper plan of what Koreeda-san was trying to attain with this film, be certain to read the segment entitled ”’Director’s Statement”’ on the DVD edition of the film.)
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