Very tedious drama about a Japanese girl who travels to Germany to visit her parents' tomb. This very simple story would be told better in a short film. As is, the movie seems artificially stretched beyond a breaking point, with similar dialogue, situations and shots repeated several times for no reason. There is an unintentionally hilarious negative review of this film on imdb.com - hilarious because the author obviously takes this apolitical picture way too seriously ("this movie portrays a very very western, very very German, very very far-left standpoint on capitalism"), even though the film has absolutely nothing to say about capitalism (nor any other ideology).
July 7, 2010
The Red Spot (2010) *
Very tedious drama about a Japanese girl who travels to Germany to visit her parents' tomb. This very simple story would be told better in a short film. As is, the movie seems artificially stretched beyond a breaking point, with similar dialogue, situations and shots repeated several times for no reason. There is an unintentionally hilarious negative review of this film on imdb.com - hilarious because the author obviously takes this apolitical picture way too seriously ("this movie portrays a very very western, very very German, very very far-left standpoint on capitalism"), even though the film has absolutely nothing to say about capitalism (nor any other ideology).
