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TL;DR: https://www.movieffm.net/movies/304311/ ... but you really should see the end of this post for caveats. Two very cute Japanese boys in almost every scene. Other cute boys, too. Some sexually suggestive activity. Much bullying of the two protagonists, "gay taunting". Worth a watch! Don't worry if the ending doesn't make much sense. See my suggestion on reading reviews. You'll see what I mean... ;-) Which of the boys do YOU think is cutest? Sōya Kurokawa, who plays Minato Mugino, or Hinata Hiiragi in the role of Yori Hoshikawa, Minato's classmate? I like them both. M. The Japanese people (including the boys) are very "neurotic" people, as a rule. They worry about things that you'd never dream of! The boys don't have very big dicks (if you're a "size queen") This comment may infuriate the VirPeds here. So be it. ;-) Boys have some freedom, and are not "helicoptered" the way Western WEIRD boys tend to be. SEE: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. See anna's archive for download. https://annas-archive.li/search?q=The+WEIRDest+People+in+the+World+Henrich In Japan you are normally "introduced" to other people (for reasons too long to go into, but which involves taking responsibility for problems that may arise). So with boys, you usually have to introduce yourself to them. So if you don't speak Japanese... Making friends with the boys them can be EXTREMELY difficult for foreigners who don't speak Japanese. But you may meet some "English Bandits" (encouraged by their mothers) who are forced to "make friends" with you just to practice English. That's something of a bore. But the boys can be "friends with benefits," and can teach you Japanese instead of learning English from you (which they are not really interested in, anyway)... Being "gay" is frowned upon. But in secret, a fair amount of homosexual activity goes on. Just don't do it in the street and startle the horses. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=do+it+in+the+street+and+startle+the+horses But you MUST MAINTAIN SECRECY! If not, you'll lose your Young Friend forever. There's no forgiveness for that social sin. Always obey all applicable laws. </end rant> Monster Original title: Kaibutsu 2023 PG-13 2h 7m (127 minutes) SOME INFO: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23736044/ WIKIPEDIA: "Monster (Japanese: 怪物, Hepburn: Kaibutsu; lit. Monster) is a 2023 Japanese coming-of-age[4] psychological drama mystery thriller film directed, co-produced, and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda from a screenplay written by Yuji Sakamoto.[5] It stars Sakura Andō as a mother who confronts a teacher after noticing disturbing changes in her son's behavior.[6] The film marks the first time Kore-eda has directed a film he did not write himself since Maborosi (1995). This was the last scoring project by Ryuichi Sakamoto (no relation to Yuji Sakamoto), who died two months before its release; the film is dedicated to his memory."[...] [...]"Saori Mugino is a single mother raising her fifth grade son, Minato. He soon begins exhibiting strange behavior such as cutting his own hair and coming home with only one shoe. One night, Minato does not come home at all and after calling around, Saori finds him in an abandoned train tunnel. Saori begins to suspect that her son's teacher, Mr. Hori, is abusing him and confronts the school about it. She is treated coldly by the faculty, culminating in Hori making a disingenuous apology. When she confronts Hori directly, he asserts that Minato is actually bullying another student named Yori. Saori visits Yori's house and he, despite his own strange behavior, seems fond of and concerned for Minato. Hori is eventually fired from the school, but returns days later and Minato falls down a flight of stairs trying to escape from him. Hori later comes to Saori and Minato's house during a rain storm, but Saori finds that Minato has gone missing."[...] [...] Sōya Kurokawa as Minato Mugino, Saori's son Hinata Hiiragi as Yori Hoshikawa, Minato's classmate [...] Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 168 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Gently devastating in its compassion, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives that surprises to the end."[31] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[32] Reviewing the film following its Cannes premiere, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded it 4 out of 5 stars, deeming it "a film created with a great moral intelligence and humanity."[33] Vox's Alissa Wilkinson praised Kore-eda's mastery of directing children's performances.[34] Monster received criticism from queer writers and scholars in Japan, particularly with regard to the marketing, in which the queer themes of the film were concealed and considered spoilers (until it won the Queer Palm at Cannes), and the ending, which the critics saw as perpetuating the film trope of victimizing queer characters.[35][36][37] In March 2024, The Asahi Shimbun published a dialogue between two of the critics, Mizuki Kodama and Rio Tsuboi, and Kore-eda. In it, Kore-eda said he intended the ending to be one in which Minato and Yori choose life, and directed it as a celebration of their being alive. He said he had anticipated that "about 20 percent" of the audience would interpret it as a depiction of an afterlife, which he acknowledged was "undeniably" an underestimation and might have been "naïve"."[...] WARNING: WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(2023_Japanese_film) AFTER WATCHING, GOOGLE THIS: https://www.google.com/search?q=Monster+%282023%29+reviews ... AND READ THE REVIEWS TO EXPLAIN THIS DELIBERATELY COMPLEX/CONVOLUTED/AMBIGUOUS MOVIE. AND SEE THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE, TOO. WATCH ONLINE, WITH ENGLISH SUBS NOTE: AVOID CLICKING ON THE SCREEN WITH THE MOUSE -- CLOSE ALL NEW TABS THAT OPEN -- USE THE KEYBOARD WHENEVER POSSIBLE ---- SPACE BAR=PAUSE, LEFT/RIGHT KEYS TO SCROLL BACKWARDS/FORWARDS https://www.movieffm.net/movies/304311/ [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |