Harakiri

Despite giving this film "only" four stars, I don‘t think its status of being the number one on letterboxd nor its reputation as the perfect film are unwarrented. I think its direction, plot, characters, perfomances and ending are all absolutely incredible. My only gripe with this film is that it noticably drags in the middle. I think this is due to the film keeping the viewer engaged through the use of constant revelations. However, in said middle portion, the film dials back the frequency of the aforementioned revelations and instead focuses its time on delivering exposition (which to be fair is somewhat needed for this entire sequence). I ultimately do think though, that this could have been trimmed down a good bit, so as to keep delivering the rapid twists instead of disrupting the films always forward-moving pace and rhythm.