The transformation of Hoshino is shocking, but possible and that’s the most depressing thing about this movie.Įven if I think All About Lily Chou Chou is groundbreaking, it’s not a masterpiece for me. But then, when you sit back and think once again about what you’ve just seen, you will most probably see a logic between all this madness. It’s a commonly used trick, present in many other movies, but frequently it makes the viewer confused and utterly lost, without a chance to understand what the heck he just watched. At first, nothing makes absolutely no sense, we have no idea what is happening, not to mention why do all those things happen at all. This dissonance is sickening, but also brilliant and makes the film different from anything I’ve seen so far.Īnother thing worth mentioning – chronology of All About Lily Chou Chou.
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The substance – full of brutality, mindless violence and helplessness, against the form – breathtaking shots and subtle, soothing music (my discovery of the movie - Debussy’s Arabesque!), makes this movie really disturbing and unforgettable.
Never have I seen such a contrast between a form and substance of one movie. Rewatch Value 8.0 Painfully beautiful, chaotically organized - if I had to sum up this movie in the shortest way, that’s what I would say. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.Īll About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42.
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