Love Exposure

One of the best films i have ever seen. Possibly the most & strange films I’ll ever watch but amazing. It plays with many sensitive themes & ideas perfectly, ranging from different forms of trauma (physical, sexual, religious) & their outcomes, dealing with grief & guilt, love, sexuality, abuse, harassment (widespread harassment), cults, & many more that i probably didn’t pick up on. Best way i can describe it is as an onion, you can keep peeling back the layers uncovering how much there is to it.  Keeping me engaged for an entire 4 hour runtime is a feat in itself, but everything about this worked so well together. The fluid camera movements & the soundtrack playing subtlety in the background throughout it all made every scene more memorable. The colouring & grading was beautiful it all feel alive! I put off watching for months due to it’s extensive runtime but now that i’m done i wouldn’t have mind if it was even longer! Each character was so incredibly well written i think. The emotions, the idea, the themes, metaphors, they embodied every single one perfectly — credit to the actors for their exhilarating performances!!  A thematically expansive film, which i’ve seen some movies try to accomplish but bite off more than they can chew & end up feeling flat & lacking sustenance but this experimented with so many ideas but it all meshes together incredibly i am so impressed. A lot of it felt like it was a critique of many of the problems in Japan now & 18 years later is more relevant than ever Sion Sono does an excellent job.  But it can all be simplified to being about boners