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Movie Mindset 07 Teaser - Talking Kurosawa's "Bright Future"

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Will, Hesse and Brendan James discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2002 film Bright Future. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

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But I think the documentary style of this and the grainy cuts the video at certain point.

0:05.7

I think it's really interesting in terms of when this movie begins to introduce elements of magical realism.

0:12.0

Because it really fulks with your perception of when Areda's ghost shows up for the first time.

0:17.9

It really fulks with your perception of what am I seeing here?

0:20.5

Because there's nothing to announce that this is a different reality or this is a dream or anything like that.

0:26.1

He doesn't do that, which is great.

0:27.9

And it's part of what makes Chris I was movies interesting and creepy is that it's again, it's like with the violence, it's matter of fact.

0:35.9

He's just in the room now.

0:37.0

You know he's dead, but I'm not announcing that.

0:39.6

I'm not going into ghost vision or having some kind of transition.

0:43.3

But the ghost also affects physical reality as well.

0:46.8

Yeah, like he fulks up.

0:48.1

He fulks up their brain shrimp operation.

0:50.4

Yeah.

0:52.0

Yeah.

0:53.4

But in the beginning, one thing that stuck out to me now, long before parasite, this is a movie about being so fed up with your boss that you just still is family.

1:04.3

It was all family.

1:05.2

I think he let the daughter less the daughter less the daughter less the daughter less the daughter less.

1:08.3

You have to maybe preserve some sympathy for Areda.

1:13.6

But and there's another great movie called Pickpockets, which is similar as well.

1:18.8

I'm not saying that no one had ever broached this before parasite.

1:21.8

But the boss, as you pointed out, well, I don't know if that we were on mic or off.

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