A unique perspective on a rarely-spoken-about victim of Us military occupation, utterly used by his own motherland. He’s a tortured caricature of an alien fantasized by the protagonist as a jazz musician, who can’t speak the language of the occupied country, which is Japanese. He reminds me of Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, he’s trying to survive the consequences of his own impulsive mistake, albeit possibly in self-defense.
The scene where Gil cries out the “train goes nowhere” song by the ocean, that was the whole movie. This is a GI that can’t stay in Japan, nor can he return to the States. The music choice makes sense in this scene- it is the heart of the pathos for Black Sun, which is a Max Roach album of course, but also about Gil and Japan, or the “rising sun.”
A unique perspective on a rarely-spoken-about victim of Us military occupation, utterly used by his own motherland. He’s a tortured caricature of an alien fantasized by the protagonist as a jazz musician, who can’t speak the language of the occupied country, which is Japanese. He reminds me of Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, he’s trying to survive the consequences of his own impulsive mistake, albeit possibly in self-defense.
The scene where Gil cries out the “train goes nowhere” song by the ocean, that was the whole movie. This is a GI that can’t stay in Japan, nor can he return to the States. The music choice makes sense in this scene- it is the heart of the pathos for Black Sun, which is a Max Roach album of course, but also about Gil and Japan, or the “rising sun.”
