For a while, I though 'Himizu' was my first taste of Director Sion Sono doing a 'normal' movie. Then I thought it absurd comedy. But, at the end, it was really a dark drama, an insanity and a depression with the unsaid message to the survivors of the tsunami and Fukushima, "Don't give up!".
Sono's companion piece is 'The Land of Hope', a conventional drama worth watching.
I watched a low budget but interesting documentary that follows a journalist at the time of the disaster. The biggest points are that the hero was a manager that defied the corporate owners of the power plant and flooded one of the reactors with sea water. Even bigger is that Tokyo was saved by a gate that malfunctioned, allowing water to spill into the chamber where the spent uranium rods were kept. The third and biggest point is that the world never learned its lesson, and that business was simply conducted in poorer countries, and warnings about the USA's aging General Electric plants are being ignored.
Current news is that Fukashima has stored one million tonnes of radioactive water, is running out of space, and that the Government of Japan, one of the biggest fishing economies in the world, has been advised to dump it in the ocean.
Sono may have to make a third movie.
Sono's companion piece is 'The Land of Hope', a conventional drama worth watching.
I watched a low budget but interesting documentary that follows a journalist at the time of the disaster. The biggest points are that the hero was a manager that defied the corporate owners of the power plant and flooded one of the reactors with sea water. Even bigger is that Tokyo was saved by a gate that malfunctioned, allowing water to spill into the chamber where the spent uranium rods were kept. The third and biggest point is that the world never learned its lesson, and that business was simply conducted in poorer countries, and warnings about the USA's aging General Electric plants are being ignored.
Current news is that Fukashima has stored one million tonnes of radioactive water, is running out of space, and that the Government of Japan, one of the biggest fishing economies in the world, has been advised to dump it in the ocean.
Sono may have to make a third movie.