I am all for films that value mood, moment, images, music over plot, but I am growing weary of international and independent films that lack all sense of story. There has to be something moving things along. The characters have to want something identifiable, to keep my interest.
Gozu pales in comparison to Visitor Q and Ichi The Killer, in that the latter two, most of the time we know roughly why the characters are doing what they or doing, or at least what they are after, or we can place their actions in the context of the larger story. Gozu spends a lot of time going nowhere. Now, the breast milk and final scene sure got the audience groaning and guffawing, but that's not enough to sustain a movie.
Let's home Miike doesn't become a caricature of himself. Let's hope he resumes his fine work of laying out a movie that moves along. They aren't called "movies" for nothing.
Gozu pales in comparison to Visitor Q and Ichi The Killer, in that the latter two, most of the time we know roughly why the characters are doing what they or doing, or at least what they are after, or we can place their actions in the context of the larger story. Gozu spends a lot of time going nowhere. Now, the breast milk and final scene sure got the audience groaning and guffawing, but that's not enough to sustain a movie.
Let's home Miike doesn't become a caricature of himself. Let's hope he resumes his fine work of laying out a movie that moves along. They aren't called "movies" for nothing.